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Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Sun, 19Feb10 08:38
by MaxCarna
Hi friends,

I saw this report on *****. An Italian website is doing translations of free games, changing the name and putting the sale: https://www.giochipremium.com/

When one creator contacted them asking to remove his game, they menaced him telling that they would make people's games taken down. Take a look if this happened to your games.

Original thread: https://*****.com/threads/italian-web ... hem.25212/

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Sun, 19Feb10 19:48
by fleet
When I clicked on giochipremium I received a 'you do not have permission' error message. I'm hoping somebody contacted that site's server host and posted a DRM notification.

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Tue, 19Feb12 00:08
by MaxCarna
Didn't know that the website that I mentioned was banned here, any specific reason?

The italians are still on, Milf City by Icstor being sold by €9.99. Just checked now.

I believe that us, small creators are very susceptible to this kind of bad people attacks. This is very perturbing.

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Tue, 19Feb12 00:19
by shark
MaxCarna wrote:Didn't know that the website that I mentioned was banned here, any specific reason?

Just to avoid advertising to hackers...

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Tue, 19Feb12 04:02
by MaxCarna
shark wrote:Just to avoid advertising to hackers...


Okay, I won't mention it again

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Sun, 19Feb17 18:02
by PinkVendeta
They should be called: ChopShop.com :lol: they chop up some amount of games, mish mash them together, rename them and actually claim them then as their own work to sell to clueless people.

Sad to see, but it is always expected some amount of noobs will do this to other peoples games.

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Mon, 19Apr08 18:16
by Mortze
That's really upsetting that they're doing it in the open.
Hacking a game and putting it freely in your site, profiting from ads alone is already bad.
Asking money for the game is preposterous. I would accept if they made some agreement with each game devs and charged for the actual translation of the games but I sincerely doubt that it's what is happening.

Re: Italian website selling free games

PostPosted: Wed, 19Apr10 20:15
by PinkVendeta
Mortze wrote:That's really upsetting that they're doing it in the open.
Hacking a game and putting it freely in your site, profiting from ads alone is already bad.
Asking money for the game is preposterous. I would accept if they made some agreement with each game devs and charged for the actual translation of the games but I sincerely doubt that it's what is happening.

You are correct, it is not what is happening, I was chatting to most of the Devs whose games have been stolen, and they have tried everything legal wise to get the site taken down, and have their content removed, but as yet these stealing bastards dont seem to be going anywhere, and they are still doing new chop ups on new games.