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January 10, 2013

TSR attacks 3 more sites with false DMCA Reports UPDATED

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 21:19

TSR scumbag Thomas O. Isaksson has attacked 2 more Sims sites with his false DMCA reports. TSR have NO RIGHT to report any files for a DMCA as legally TSR own nothing. The EULA clearly states that all files made using EA owned software ( The Sims ) is the property of EA GAMES. EA games have given open permission for fansites to publish and/or share THEIR property for other players enjoyment – unless it is for commercial gain ( as in illegally selling it @TSR ) Even the TSR workshop was created using the EA software, which means that too remains the property of EA.

http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1732

Not happy with falsely reporting EA owned files made by current TSR staff, Tom has stooped low enough to report retextures of files made by FORMER TSR staff that are not even on TSR, in this case Newsea. Also reported were files made solely by the site owners which have no connection to TSR’s present or former staff.

Marie Antoinette from therescakeinyourhair says:

She received this takedown notice from Mediafire:

UPDATE: 11 JAN 2013:

Marie Antoinette says: Thank you so much for publishing this, Coco. This seriously irritates me to no end, and he has reported EVEN MORE files, including Coolsims, Cazy, and more Newsea hairs. It has the same messages, and it’s still from Thomas.

Jenni from Jennisims has also had several take down notices on files where both the meshes and the textures were entirely created by Jenni. One example is this:

 It is also worth noting that all Jennis downloads are her own work, on occasions where she has used outside meshes, these are not included in the download – only the re-textures made by herself.

Justin from PradaSims says:

“Hey, I am justin from Pradasims and they also attacked me! I hate them!!”

Tom, yesterday, made a somewhat correct statement stating that someone with nothing better to do is reporting Mediafire files. He also claims that anyone can put his name on the complaint, also true.. But how the hell does he explain ’them’ using his email to file the complaints? Oh that’s right.. he doesn’t! He also fails to explain why he has not cancelled the claims. Mediafire would notify him, at his given contact address, that the files are being suspended, he would know even before the file owner does, so why did he not simply write to Mediafire and admit the files do not belong to him or TSR? Instead he waits until the file owner contacts him and then fakes mock shock and horror, he seems to be feeding off their confused emails, rather like last April when he pulled the same ‘joke’ for an April fools stunt. It is a criminal offence to file a fake DMCA report, Tom knows this. He needs the ‘genuine’ reports to get the files removed, but he thinks he is being smart using the half hearted denials ( that really are not denials ) after the fact to wriggle out of legal action.. Tom isn’t as smart as he he thinks he is - and the community are not so dumb. 

TomsLittlePenis says:

 TomsLittlePenis is correct.

It is just a matter of time :)

Related reading:

http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1732
http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=990
Many Thanks to Sunsetsims

May 2, 2012

Have TSR had your files deleted by Mediafire?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 19:54

Have TSR had your files deleted by Mediafire? In the increasingly likely event this should happen there are 3 options that you can do.

Option 1

  Do nothing.  Upload your files to another host and hope this does not happen again. Tom has not had much luck deleting files from http://www.99p-services.in/filehost or you can shop around, try different services. Try to find a host that is less gullible than Mediafire, one who actually checks that any files reported as ’stolen’ from TSR are actually stolen.

Option 2

  Email Thomas, he is the one who had your files deleted, so he is really going to listen to what you have to say right? Sit and wait while Tom forwards your mail to his inner circle for giggles and await his reply… He has replied! Wow you must be special, this guy has listened to what you have to say and has bothered to reply, what a saint! Read carefully where he tells you it was not TSR, while disregarding the Email from Mediafire that says it was. Mediafire are a bunch of liars anyway. Now you find out from your new friend Tom that Mediafire employs a pirate named Lachandra. It was her that had your downloads deleted.  She is one of those greedy pirates in the community who want everything for free and that is why she is taking down free files…wait.. huh?… Nevermind, it must be true. Tom’s a genuine nice guy, he wouldn’t make something like that up.  She must be the one hacking all the free sites too.  Damn Mediafire pirate. Thank Tom, tell him how much you love TSR. Do not forget to add how you always hated the greedy attitude of the free community anyway. Hope he one day offers you a place in his great community. Make sure your sub is renewed. Write to Mediafire and demand they fire Lachandra. Spread the word to everyone that TSR is innocent and to keep an eye out for the evil Lachandra. Make a shrine to Tom in your bedroom, and nail his picture above your bed.

Option 3

  Instantly change all your passwords to one you have NEVER EVER used on TSR. Write to Mediafire, calmly explain the situation and forward the email you got from them. Inform them that the accusation is false. Tell them that in order for you to understand the complaint against you, you need more information about the complainant and you need to know what necessary steps they took to verify that you did steal from TSR and also what steps they took to verify who in TSR was the actual complainant. You need to find out:

  • Was the complaint filed via an online ticket system, or forum? If so, did it log the IP of the complainant?
  • Was the complaint filed by Email? If so did the Email of the actual sender match the Email listed in the complaint? ( DMCA )
  • Was the DMCA filed by fax? If so you need details on that and a copy of the signature.
  • Did they contact the complainant by telephone? If so did the number match the one in the DMCA?
  • Finally, did they email the complainant to notify him that they are taking action or send an auto generated mail  to confirm his complaint has been received?  ( usually, they do both ) and if so did the complainant respond in any way to stop the deletion?

You then need to find out the steps involved for restoring your files,  and also for making a formal complaint against the complainant.

 If you have written to Tom and been ridiculed with his LaChandra ‘joke’ make sure you forward that mail to them as well. Ask them to confirm that LaChandra ( or any of the other Mediafire staff who may be mentioned on the take-down email  ) actually exists and is not a member of the Sims community/pirate/supernatural source/crazy cult or whatever story Tom has spun you. 

  It is up to you which option you take and how keen you are to get to the bottom of this.

 

May 1, 2012

TSR attacks Baufive: UPDATED

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 22:53

  In the same style as Zveki was attacked, TSR have now attacked another website with a false copyright infringement claim to Mediafire. This time it was Baufive from b5studio. Baufive posted a message stating that Mediafire had suspended his original content downloads due to a complaint lodged from TSR, claiming copyright infringement. Below is a donated screen cap of the post ( Cropped and red splodged by me )

 View from clicking on Baufives downloads

I am told that not only has Baufive NOT infringed any copyrights, he is also a paying subscriber at T$R. He plans to contact Thomas and try to get this resolved, however the last person to do this ( Zveki ) ended up being the butt of a cruel ‘joke’ and was additionally slapped with a lifetime ban from TSR. http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1450

It will be interesting to see what reply Tom has planned this time.

Thank you to ‘Anon’ for the information and screencaps.

UPDATE:

The TSR sock puppets are out in force ( estatica.. really?? ) While Tom remains silent. Possibly he’s either contemplating his next ‘joke’ or busy hacking Baufives YouTube.

Update 1: Tom went for the old joke… and they say lightening never strikes twice :)

Update 2: 

‘Someone’ hacked Baufive’s Gmail account. How kind of Tom to be the first to notice and let Baufive know on his blog account.

Of course you did Thomas, we believe you.. or are you just taking the piss? I wonder if that last sentence is a thinly veiled threat?

April 9, 2012

Hacked, TOS’d and victim of a cruel ‘April Fool’ UPDATED

Filed under: The Sims Resource — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 14:56

 Most people celebrate Easter by eating chocolate or going to church, Tom celebrates it by sacrificing a member of the free community, I guess he was all out of goats.

 TSR Thomas has yet again destroyed the work of a talented creator and freesite owner. This time not only did he file blatant false TOS reports, hack him and then release some personal information, he also made his victim the subject of a cruel ” Late April Fools” joke and has spent most of the day laughing at him.

  Some of you may know ZVEKI from sites such as LivingSims or TheBlackPearl and also his Tumblr website. On his site he had some Sims 3 downloads that were converted from TS2 meshes, a few of these meshes were originally made by TSR artists. TSR demanded he remove these downloads from his site, Which he immediately did, although he was doing nothing illegal or unethical in hosting these – in fact by TSR’s own standards this practise is totally acceptable, such as when TSR take a mesh from a TS2 base game, stuff pack, or expansion  and convert them, they claim the rights to the converted mesh belongs to them and therefore  is theirs to sell, so by these standards the rights to the converted meshes now belong to ZVEKI. Even so, Zveki was kind enough to take them down from his site and they were instead hosted at sunsetsims. All the downloads that remained belonged to Zveki and had nothing to do with TSR.

 Tom, unwilling to let this rest then decided to report EVERY download left on the site, he filed a false report to Mediafire stating that these remaining downloads were the property of TSR and were stolen by Zveki, as a result all his downloads on his site and on other sites were deleted by Mediafire. 

 On the same day Zveki’s  YouTube channel was hacked  and all his videos , all the files he was working on and over 1000 subscribers were lost, his account name was changed to ‘I STEAL FROM BIGGER AND BETTER ARTISTS’ and his telephone number was displayed on the page.

 It gets sicker.. Tom has been laughing about it all day. What Tom has found really funny is that he spoke to Zveki  and has somehow convinced him to go after someone called  LaChandra, saying that she took down Zvekis downloads because she is working for ‘pirates’. The part of the ‘joke’ that Tom did not share with Zveki  is that LaChandra is part of the Anti piracy team at Mediafire, and although she may have technically been the one to remove the downloads, she did it because of a direct report ( A LIE ) from Thomas himself. Tom is calling Zveki a “late April Fool” and he cannot wait to see him publically accuse a member of the Mediafire team of being a ‘pirate’ and a hacker.

 Tom says he did this because of Zvekis association with Sunsetsims, although this is just a pathetic excuse because he was targeting him before he hosted some of his files there.

 Although gleefully joking about his false TOU report, Tom has not openly claimed responsibility for the YouTube hack, (..he has not denied it either ) However the fact that the hack was done on very the same day as his false report and also how he referred to the hack before it was publicised raises no doubts in my mind that this was another TSR hack to add to his collection.

 To put a cherry on the cake, Tom has also banned Zveki from TSR for life, although this is not a bad thing, at least he cannot steal any more updated passwords/personal info from his account. Sadly, as a result of TSR’s harassment, Zveki has announced that he is no longer creating for the Sims. I wish he would reconsider and not make this too easy for that smug little b’stard.

 Word of warning to Tom, while reading the TOU on your many visits to Mediafire did you read right to the end?  No? Better up the subs at TSR, you may have a bill coming…

 

Update

Another site falls victim to TSR, Dreamsims ( TS3stuffs ) http://ts3stuffs.blogspot.com/

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