[URGENT] Somebody seems to be reselling marketplace content.

[BinarySword (Benjamin D. Smith)]

@kamrann;347706

I guess it comes down to how you define a ‘bad person’. If this thread shows one thing it’s that everyone draws their moral line in a slightly different place, and no-one thinks of themselves as doing anything wrong. It’s pretty scary to me that people will post in a thread admitting to downloading pirated content at the same time as asking what is going to be done to stop the people who happen to draw their line a little bit further along.

Some general thoughts…

If you download pirated material you legitimize the act of making that content available for download. Regardless of what you do with the content and how you view that, you are creating demand for pirated material, which causes more pirating.

If you download something to ‘see if it’s worth buying’ and decide that you’re not willing to pay the price, are you always going to remove it entirely even if it might be useful to you? Even if you do, what about things you learnt whilst browsing through a blueprint? Can you erase that knowledge from your mind? Will you contact the creator and send them a payment for the knowledge you gained?

When it comes to blueprints and code (given that UE4-dependent source code must be included), people are not only selling a solution, they’re selling a complete explanation of the solution. You could say that the value of this content derives primarily from the knowledge contained in them. So there’s no reason to expect to pay less for something just because you only want it as a learning resource. Whatever your reasons for wanting it, it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth the price.

And if you can’t tell from the information available whether or not it’s worth it, don’t buy it. If the creator lost a sale, it’s their fault for not providing enough detail - or maybe it was their choice to limit the amount of detail they wanted to provide up front. It’s hardly a justification for downloading the material without their consent.

I couldn’t have said it better myself and one of the very reasons why we have sought to setup a service which handles this problem in a similar to how the Humble Bundle has curb stumped would-be pirates (to a certain degree).

Now what we are suggesting isn’t a means all to end all solution but it’s a start in hopefully the right direction and at the end of the day if Steam is one thing to learn by is that if you provide a better service than the pirates than you usually win would-be pirates over.

More info can be found here: **[Free Marketplace Assets] A Patreon page funded approach :D]([Free Marketplace Assets] A Patreon page funded approach :D - Marketplace - Epic Developer Community Forums)

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