Hey Guys!

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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Personally, I'm jealous! Why didn't they take my maps ... or even just 1 of my maps!

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!

cant say i agree with ya tig, after all the hard work that goes into a level, having some fool pretend like its their own creation is a bit on the nose.

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

That is my main point. There is very little you can do. You could try to dox - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dox - the person, but then what? Call the Police? Get in touch with 4chan people and hope you can talk their language?

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

We can't really call the police if he lives in another country. Unless one of you are from the United Kingdom.

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?

@Tig: Well having my work stolen isn't very flattering but you do have a point.

@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.

I hate map thieves also (i've had been stolen before and I don't even map!), however bringing the issue on other Quake3 forums would just be met with apathy and sarcasm.

@leilei: You do have a point there :). There was this map thief on map-factoy.org named ''Kaz''. Now I'm not saying our ''Kaziganthe'' took the maps but however with no hesitation, he changed the readme files and the map names also the Authors Name and posted them onto map-factory.org. But he got spotted out eventually. Btw My name is Kaz also but I am not the thief if that's what your thinking ;'o.

The guy who stole the screenshots, apparently ignored the ..::LvL Watermark at the lower, right side of the pics, so I think there will be plenty of people noticing that something isn't right.

@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

ahh, benjamin pulido. That guy even claimed MY work as his own!
www.moddb.com/mods...ew-mod-textures

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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But SW12, you're one of Benjamin's biggest fans!

@themuffinator: XD looks like it.

You obviously aren't though lol. I remember you comment here www.map-factory.or...yer/random-2518

Haha, he got owned:

"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.

@SW12: Ahh! Benji, The guy who stole some of my old maps as his own. I had a word with him on map-factory.org and claimed that ''Those maps are mine which I created myself. You must be stupid enough to claim MY works as YOUR own!''. I lolled so hard when he said that to me and I actually reported him to Vincent, the site Manager of map-factory.

@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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@SW12: Looking back I guess I was a tad coarse with him, after all it was one of his few actual original maps. Nah just kidding, the map has hideous written all over it!

@FragTastic: Really? Where did that argument take place? Mind showing me? Unless of course it no longer exists.

@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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@Euronymous: Wow nice, that is good to here. I thought this was going to be something that wouldn't of went too well and that he/she would of gotten away with it, but it seems not :D

@SW12: Ah that toilet one... I was thinking of another one with some kind of pool and some kind of airstrike thing and it used stock Q2 textures... was terrible. Although that one probably wasn't made by good ol Benji either, but it's just easier to blame Benji as the source of all terrible maps.

Benji ports other's q2 maps also yeah. His defensive comment about "his" Flash is hilariously ignorant.

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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@SW12: Of course it doesn't exist. After Vincent found out, he deleted all comments and conversations of his. I haven't been on that website for a while but I'm gonna check out if he's still posting the maps that have been stolen.

@themuffinator: LOL! I remember that map. It was called ''Random''. It was such a disappointing map no effort was put into it.