This is the link of the thief:
This is my profile on Makerworld:
Plase help me to report
It’s your stolen work, you are the one who has to report it as no one else can claim your copyright to Etsy.
Use the very same link you provided and follow the arrow.
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Woaw. I always astonishing by how shameless they are.
Yep report it. This happend to me to but on AliExpress 
Today there was a flood of uploaded by a list of several users, all uploading the same files. The users are all level 5, and most have similar user names.
It is obvious that these “users” are trying to cheat Maker World
Here is a list of the users I noticed, hope I did not miss any others (have to make two posts as MW limits mentioning users to a maximum of 10).
@Shanksdono
@Lufzomb
@NinjaDono
@nibora
@KaidoDono
@bomzijnas
@Linlindono
@Ninidono
@Thordono
@gantops
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More users:
@killerdonochan
@Eustasskiddono
@Rayleighdono
@Goldrogerdono
@zozomb
@Zorodono
@Luffydono
@Tonydono
@Sanjidono
@robindono
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And:
@spotnag
These users are cheating the system
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Spammers for spammers sake in this case I think. Its annoying as carp and is making it hard to respect MW’s efforts as I think they massively drop the ball here. The reports take too long to process and in many cases are totally ignored or rejected. I’ve seen accounts that I’ve reported successfully have nothing changed, I can’t understand why. Just checked and the accounts still stand but with no offending models, so they’ll just wait out whatever ban they have and play on?
Hello, i see my name over there @nibora. I have only 2 design uploaded and are mine. Why am i a cheater ? Can you please check? Thank you in advance.
Your name is @Nibora3D not @nibora
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Maker World isn’t just a place where thieves upload stolen models; they also steal models from here too.
I found one of my models reuploaded to printables as a fake remix of some thingiverse dragon (no changes were made to it). Easily reported and removed, but what makes me laugh is these people start crying that “they can’t learn/share anything anymore”. which isn’t true; we’re saying read and respect the license. (we all know they don’t care anyway, they want free stuff or money without any effort.)
I’ve just stopped uploading my best work to Maker World, getting 1 free spool of filament every couple of months (plus it then getting stolen) isn’t worth the days/weeks I put into making a model.
Serious changes need to be put into place if Maker World doesn’t want to be forever known as “the place of stolen models”. What changes should they be? I think we need to tackle the problem right at the source and go for the jugular; the rewards/points system.
If there is no reward, there is no point for these thieves to use the site. Yet, without that reward, why would we as creators even bother using Maker World too, when we have other sites like Thingiverse, Printables, and Cults3D? Getting rid of the rewards is not the solution; it’s getting access to those rewards that need to change, and I don’t have any solution/suggestions on that. Bringing in some form of a manual review process to unlock a “model uploader” account, which then gives you access to the rewards system, would be great but implementing it now is not realistic.
If @MakerWorld took a hint it’d be a step forward. There are a lot of profiles that carry on because reporting is time consuming to the point of annoying to report a pageful plus of blatantly stolen material. There is a case for “3-strikes” and then the whole profile disappears, not just the offending models (which often are the sum total uploaded). Its no mistake to upload a model complete as they are doing, and tough if for some reason they are ignorant of the fact you can’t just lift something if it looks cool.
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I would add this one RS | Published - MakerWorld
I didn’t think there was any practical benefit to the points system – I thought it was just a reputational thing. But I see you can trade points for stuff, so that gives a financial motivation to game the system. I’m not here for points myself – I’m uploading my own designs that I want to share, and this is a good place to put them, with the parametric modeler. I just want a place to share my stuff that I can link people to where they can easily make use of it.
If they award points for the wrong things, then yes, they incentivize behavior that’s harmful. In this case, making original designs harder to find by cluttering things up with copies, or infringing on IP rights.
Maybe they should reconsider what points are awarded for. For instance, if someone works on a design and refines it and makes something useful, easy to print, with good documentation, do they get more points than someone who just finds a STL file somewhere and uploads it? Apparently not. But how do you measure that?
I’m thinking there should be zero points awarded for uploading. ALL the points should come from other people finding the model valuable somehow – likes and downloads.
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That’s already how it works. You only get 65 points total for your first 5 uploads (with profiles). After the first five there are no point rewards for uploading.
But going back to the issue, I really wish there was a robust way to ensure uniqueness, or authorship of models. But digital content is too easy to duplicate and modify. I think it’s just the nature of the beast.
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It sucks, but with like everything else once you post something online (especially for free) you have the chance of the vultures swooping in and taking your stuff for their own gain/profit. Reality is unless you own a copyright or trademark on said item it will be hard to fight them legally. Yeah you can contact them and ask them to remove it, and you can communicate with the site owners to ask them to take it down, but in all reality you are at their mercy. There are so many things I see at flea markets of 3D printed items that I know people don’t have the rights to print and sell but they still do. That is why I have found sites to where you can charge for your model to be a bit better, at least if they take it and re-upload it you at least get something in return if you can’t get them to take it down.
I liked the idea of encouraging people to “watermark” models, but this doesn’t work so great with OpenSCAD scripts, since it would be obvious in the code and easy to remove.
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Only real way to watermark it is to hide it within the models geometry, to the point only the artist will be able to notice it. Though if someone remixes the model it could be unintentionally removed in the re-mix, so I don’t think there is any way to fully watermark a 3D model unfortunately.
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This is one of the reasons I keep asking for the option to choose per model to have the OpenSCAD files private (hidden).
Add “Illegal remix” to that. I’ve been battling a user by the name of e.ferazzini. Had the first one taken down successfully only to find out he re uploaded it and made the attribution to some other, very obviously different, Lincoln model from thingiverse.
I reported it again and this time I also reported his profile. I don’t think any of the models he uploads are actually his.
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