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[Beowulf]

I contacted GameStreet. Hopefully, they'll remove his 'guild.'

[Daz]

I got a response from EA Customer Support:
"Thank you for informing this to us. I will forward this to my supervisor and be assured it will be sent to the concerned department too. "

I also e-mailed Apoc about the site.

[Romanul]

I saw this guy's email address.

Oztronix@blabla... you know the stuff.
The thing is that oztronix sounds somehow familiar.

[Daz]

He's been banned from C&C community forums before.

[raminator]

those bumheads even stoles my ralike terrain...

[Daz]

I thought I recognised it. I think he used a couple of your voxels too but they were in the ModDB screenshots which aren't viewable anymore.

[raminator]

this shit makes me ask myself again, why people liked it that protected mixfiles can now be unprotected...

[Lord Nikademis]

Did they A*****E do anything other than change the credits of FA2? Did he make any kind of improvements? Just curious....

[Daz]

He claims on the website that he changed 80% of FA2 and uses this as his justification for editing the credits, but I seriously doubt that's true.

I'm not downloading a 900MB illegal file to check, but he claimed on the ModDB page he said he'd changed a lot of stuff from ICFRA. Though on the website he says it's a close remake of RA so he can't have changed much from ICFRA or it wouldn't be a close remake of RA.
He also claimed he hadn't stolen a massive quantity of art assets, said my coding was "a mess" when it's just normal RA2 coding and if you read the website a lot of it sounds like he's reworded things that I've said about ICFRA in the past (he specifically mentions the right click scrolling from RA2 for example, which is the exact reason ICFRA exists and I've said this several times including in the fairly recent Revora interview which was linked from the ICRA profile).

I noticed on the website today that he also says people from the community were contacting him on behalf of people who never contacted him directly to complain, which is another lie as he posted on ICFRA's ModDB profile a long time ago about his mod and I told him he didn't have permission to use the assets.

[Lord Nikademis]

One possible solution to fix this b***H might be for any forum that supports the fact that this A*****E has stolen or misrepresented his mod to ban his IP Address and his hardware ID. There are too many kids running around creating websites that have no business doing so. I say when Michael Vranic hits puberty we string him up by his testicles. And that goes for the dumbass Wisedagamer (unless it is michelle being a troll) and anyone who supports or defends them.

[Daz]

He's 44 according to ModDB and 26 according to other places. ModDB pulled the profile at my request and all (as far as I know) of the community forums have already banned him or posted news about the mod and then were advised of exactly what it was, leading to them removing the news.
He's not getting any exposure from the places that would grant him either the biggest audience (ModDB) or the most interested audience (the C&C community) so it's probably not going to get much attention anymore.

I've still not heard back from Apoc, though I imagine he's busy with pre-launch PR for C&C4 and the fact the team is being disbanded, but according to the customer support person who contacted me the website has been passed onto the relevant people so hopefully EA will take the site out and then there'll be no download for people to get.

The general consensus seems to be that the people supporting him are just him using other accounts because of the similarity of the writing style, and if you look at the guild site it only has one member - him. If I was trying to do something and knew I had some supporters I'd have asked them to join it.

[Lord Nikademis]

Well, reading the posts I would have said he was 9 years old.

[Daz]

He knows words there's no way a nine year old would know. Generally this kind of person is thirteen or fourteen but he's managed to string the idea of ripping and pirating other people's stuff into some kind of new modding philosophy so I'd suspect he might be a little older.

[Lord Nikademis]

Well, if he is 44....damn, i thought i was old for playing C&C

[Daz]

Both my parents played Red Alert when it came out, they were in their forties then

[raminator]

downloaded "his" stuff for checking. and deleted it after checking.
besides usage of my terrain it seems to be just a modifyed ICFRA.

he is eviler than ilooo

[Lord Nikademis]

downloaded "his" stuff for checking. and deleted it after checking.
besides usage of my terrain it seems to be just a modifyed ICFRA.

he is eviler than ilooo

Did you ever make your terrain public, like to see it, if its public maybe I could use it in my campaign/mod when I get mine fixed.

[Lord Nikademis]

Check this out

WTF

[Daz]

His YouTube account is similar, he's either involved in some sort of cult or he's just a bit unstable.

[raminator]

downloaded "his" stuff for checking. and deleted it after checking.
besides usage of my terrain it seems to be just a modifyed ICFRA.

he is eviler than ilooo

Did you ever make your terrain public, like to see it, if its public maybe I could use it in my campaign/mod when I get mine fixed.

nope...didn´t release it for the public.
if you want to take alook at it simply download ralike