Illegal screen grabs

Unfortunatly it has come to our attention that some morally challenged individuals feel it is all right to screen grab the sample textures displayed on this web site.  It is not and constitutes theft of copyrighted material.  We are taking action to stop this activity.  We appologize to the honest majority who have continued to support our work.

To be absolutly clear.  It is not OK to screen grab images from this website.  It is THEFT and if you do it you are a thief and WE DO TRACK ALL WEB ACTIVITY and Square Soft records all page views and activity.  That includes all server addresses.

Jee’s it’s only a buck and a quarter.

Thom

Comments

[John Humes]

Thom,

I aqgree with you about theft of copy rite material. I have no idea why folks would steal your textures since you have made them so affordable.

Take a look at Scale sceans and Paper Creek to see how they have solved the problem.

Keep up the good work. I love your models.:))

John

[Thom M]

Thanks John, It amazes me that anyone would even consider it. i always feel that we go out of our way to make a great product and we have lowered prices when ever we could. Hundreds of people take the free downloads. i would expect a bit of support. Oh well, we are watermarking all of the images and as i have said before everything gets tracked as a part of the providers package.
If your going to do a direct download business model you have to expect and except that there will be a little theft. It's an unfortunate fact of life.

[John Humes]

Thom,

Some of your model kits (this includes the DVD's) do not have photos of the completed model. In these instences I do capture a photo of a completed model to help me during constuction.

I hope you are not offened.

John

[Thom M]

John, That kind of thing is fine. it's our own fault that we haven't been able to keep up with the photos of completed kits. I'm referring to the practice of opening a texture sample and screen grabbing it. Wile the sampled displayed are only 92 dpi and the downloaded textures for purchase are 300 dpi it seems that the quality of the sample is sufficient to tempt some people to grab and use what we feel is inferior and not representative of the quality of the product.
I'd hate people to see a model using a pirated texture get the wrong impression of our product. i remember some time ago. Back when we were printing everything. some one on the Atlas boards were saying how our printing wasn't as good as paper creeks. Well. they were looking at a knock off. Our printing (and the image files) are (were) far better than Paper Creek. I did a side by side comparison with a magnifying glass the quality and sharpness difference was shocking. Our textures even at a low 92 dpi are acceptable for a certain type of modeler. Some times i wonder why we bother.
Thom

[marc]

Hi Thom i must admitted that i have saved the small images as thumnails and referance aids to what your sheets are,but as you say there will always be one mindless moron thats out there too ruin it for every one

regards Marc

[Jim Murray]

Shame on them. You provide a quality product at a VERY reasonable price. It is a shame that those type of people have no moral compass and think nothing of stealing.