Well I have found out that one of my maps and some other maps made by other authors have been taken and posted on other websites. I actually want to take further action with this since this is Fraudulent and have been taken without permission. Anonymous, the person who has informed us about this inconvenience saw all of the maps which have been taken on a forum called ''Friendcodes''. Now I reckon the thief took our maps for attention and brag that he/she created them.
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You should be happy that someone has taken the time and effort to steal your stuff. It is kind of flattering really. Out of all the maps on ..::LvL, the thief took one of yours.

Basically, people steal stuff. Look at Map Factory - the guy never asked if he could use the ..::LvL screenshots, never credits where the screenshots come from for a lot of the Quake 3 maps. When I asked him to credit that the screenshots come from ..::LvL, it feel on deaf ears. From a prime example, check "Windsong Keep" on Map Factory (I'm not posting a direct link on purpose).

I can see two things you can do; ignore it or contact the forum Admins and ask for the post to be removed. Lucky for you the thief is not the owner!

the best part is the descriptions he's written for each map. lots of lols. still, what are ya gonna do...

No, not very practical. So, that comes back to my original two suggestion: Ignore or contact the site Admin.

Maybe someone should alert Quake 3 Forums or something. Make him known to the Q3 Community as a threat.

I need time to think: How do we bust this kid's ass?

@fKd: Yeah! He did write a lot but it's all a lie.

@SW12: Call the police..?! Haha! That's just outrageous. Well we could hunt him down and tie him on a chair in a shed and lock him in there and throw the key away :D.

@FragTastic: There is another guy at large who does a crappy job at converting maps from other id games into Quake 3 maps: Benjamin Pulido at www.map-factory.or...amin-pulido-847

themuffinman has commented on almost all of his conversions lol

btw he's banned at moddb for submitting too many modified doom wads of others' maps with commercial mp3s tacked onto it as padding (some bad song choices for Doom too - like Michael Jackson's Thriller). He also used to constantly upload warez to modDB including full versions of Doom II, Strife, and Jazz Jackrabbit 2.

His map-factory q3 maps are all Q2toQ3A effortless conversion jobs so he still shows his existence as a talentless hack proudly in 2012. His doom map conversions are conversions of Generations Q2 maps I believe.

I'm also slightly appalled by the lack of standards on map-factory to prevent these kinds of direct conversions from ever appearing. ..:: LvL got that sorted out back in early 2000 when Hollenshead made a statement about it and it helped.
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You obviously aren't though lol. I remember you comment here www.map-factory.or...yer/random-2518

"Closing this thread down for plagiarism. All the maps posted here can be found at this site ..::LvL - Quake 3 Arena Maps (Q3A Custom Maps) all with different creators. Which really only leaves me with one plausible outcome. You've taken these as your own to try and impress members here."

He's now a restricted user :D.

@leilei: Benji posted like 15 maps at one time which literally showed that he stole the maps. What a troll! :P

@Euronymous: Well he got a taste of his own medicine :D
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@themuffinator: That quote was actually from a map made by another author: Jojobrough@hotmail.com (www.map-factory.or...yer/random-2518). His maps may be silly, crappy, and missing textures, but at least he didn't steal anything from anybody.

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Also he made a suggestion of warez in a comment for his bad quake map including a dead megaupload link. Yet unsurprised, I facepalmed.
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@themuffinator: LOL! I remember that map. It was called ''Random''. It was such a disappointing map no effort was put into it.

...but personally, I kind of liked that map called "random". It was a heaping pile of crap, but the hilarity it emitted kept my blood pressure down.

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What does that tell you?

@Tig: Ok guys what's going on here..?! Y'all are acting suspicious!
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One time I caught a model thief converting mikumikudance models as his own. Unsuccessfully trying to twist words and backstab me as the perp, the 17-year-old Toronto boy proceeded to make 24 sockpuppet accounts dishing out constant death and rape threats on deviantART user page sections trying to get me exiled from the community for "attracting trolls" (which is just himself, really).

......so yeah.
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@Tig & FragTastic: Sorry, I skipped the conversation that took place before my comment. I have ADD so I may have missed or forgot some details. en.wikipedia.org/w...tly_inattentive

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@Kyall: I don't know they just do LOL! :P.