Probably no action will be taken, that user has other problematic uploads, probably just another good friend of maker world staff or the maker world staff are just a bunch of inexperienced kids that just learned what 3d printing is after they got the jobs and can’t recognize old models or just haven’t seen much in general, I can’t think of any other explanations that make sense.
Lots of customer support have untrained eyes about the Internet fake things, manipulated images, ai images.
I have seen too much and recognize what is stolen and just from the first photo. Then I use AI search match immediately - there are also pattern user uploads the quality is inconsistent and different hands etc.
Once I spot one upload, I hunt down the rest of the uploads within that user.
Check the comment of this post lol clearly know what he is doing.
I’ve seen that one, so obviously a bait and switch until he was exposed. But it seems that nothing will be done about it, it seems that currently MW will only take action if someone blatantly uploads a stolen design with stolen images at the same time, anything else they don’t really care. I’ve seen some people upload designs as their original design on MW but in their descriptions they have links to the original models from thingiverse or printable, that seems to be fine by MW standards, so…
They’re also using photos taken from aliexpress/Amazon.
@The_Crafty_Maker - I think this is your model that they stole. I’ve already submitted a copyright claim for it but since it’s yours then I thought you’d like to know.
Wow, they racked up a good bit of points for that dog print.
*edit … Gotta laugh, early on they put some effort into hiding the stolen work. But the most recent uploads are just the copy/paste. Guess the greed took over.
2nd edit… While looking at the rest of their profile I see it’s gone now. That was quick.
