Chinese IL2 player copy IL2: up2.0 mods, claims it is developed by him and sell it

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Semor, nice piece of advertisement. But I don't think, this is in first case a problem of modding, since it is 1C, who owns the core rights on the product named 'Il-2' and all its content and files.
Of course the mental properties of individual artists and authors from the modding scene are hurt here as well - still I doubt, you will find any lawer who could fight that through (especially, because the topic 'mental property' is not always that clear itself and sometimes even very suspicious inside the modding scene).

This is most important for 1C - and thats where it already went.

Thanks, Cainiaofly!

[Treetop64]

Unfortunately, there is a similar situation going on in the FSX community regarding AIG's (Alpha India Group, AI) work with AI traffic, and an individual in Spain who is taking AIG's work and selling it, claiming it to be his "team's" own work. He calls it Ice AI.

The group at AIG is not happy about this and litigation has ensued.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

I hope, as long as '46 is still sold in stores, 1C will go the same way. It one of the most perfid way of stealing and I bet, a lot of people of the community would like to fist-feet their oppinions right into this Yao Yao's face.

[Bearcat]

Wow.. talk about ballsy...

[GF_Mastiff]

to bad you cant do anything about it in China they wouldnt give a rats a&& about pirating software.

[vpmedia]

I'm pretty sure that there's a chinese flightsim community who could adress this issue much better then we could. For example putting up latest version free to download links for UP3rc4/HSFX6/DBW1.71 to their sites would ruin this "business".