Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted May 6, 2014 Aerosoft Share Posted May 6, 2014 I find it hard to believe that VA's are still involved so often with piracy. But yet they are. Just today I found out about this nice bunch of pirates in France. World Pilotes Alliance. They had just about the whole Navigraph set online, charts and all. They also had some of our software. Of course after I contacted them they hurried to remove the files but we got the screenshots, downloaded all files and got the ftp logs (they were not very good at It obviously as it was all publicly available). Of course I informed our friends at Navigraph, they will take their own actions. If you are a member of this VA I suggest you leave them immediately and join a VA that has higher moral standards. If you like another read about a related topic I suggest this, probably blow your mind: http://asn.aerosoft.com/?page_id=28060 Les VA et le piratage Je trouve difficile de croire que des VA sont encore si souvent impliquées dans le piratage. Mais pourtant, elles le sont. Aujourd’hui même, j’ai découvert en France une belle brochette de pirates. World Pilote Alliance. Ils avaient juste mis en ligne à peu près l’ensemble de Navigraph, les cartes et tout. Ils avaient aussi quelques uns de nos produits. Bien sûr, après les avoir contactés, ils se sont précipités d’enlever tous les fichiers mais nous avons fait des captures d’écran, nous avons téléchargé tous les fichiers et nous avons les logs FTP (ils n’étaient évidemment pas très bons dans ce domaine puisque tout était accessible au public). Bien sûr j’ai informé nos amis de Navigraph, qui prendront leurs propres mesures. Si vous êtes membre de cette VA je vous suggère de la quitter immédiatement et de rejoindre une VA qui a des standards moraux plus élevés. Si vous voulez un autre article sur ce sujet, je vous propose celui-ci qui va probablement vous surprendre : http://asn.aerosoft.com/?page_id=28060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiiMMeY 14 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 I hope they`ll get a hard punishment. I my opinion you should contact the police about this. I hate people doing things like that!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acra24 83 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Mathijs Good post. If you find more like this please name and shame them. Perhaps all we simmers who pay for our gear can email the offenders and express our opinions to them...nicely of course. The World Pilot Alliance also have a FB page so you could contact them there too. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Reverse 344 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Mathijs,<br /> applaus for a very good post!!<br /> <br /> I hope it is possible to find the person who is responsible for this Website and the Uploads.<br /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen O'Connell 17 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Mathijs, Thank you for your excellent post and for reporting to us. Indeed we also took action and sure enough, the files disappeared soon after. Today, two other VA's with the same moral standards were detected. 1) Loucos Por FS ...further down... : Saved above screenshots while e-mailing them, and eventually the whole site was disabled and a reply gotten: "Hello, All files were removed from the Website and MEGA, sorry for the big mistake not occurred again". Mistake..? Indeed. 2) DLH Virtual You would think that a Virtual Airline that uses Lufthansa's logo as their website icon (favicon), and hence claim to be a virtual counterpart to a real airline, would play fair game. Think again. I have yet to hear back from their CEO after confronting him with this screenshot. (Before sending screenshot he just denied it.) I second Mathijs comment about what to do if you belong to either of these VAs. Regards, Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen O'Connell 17 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 And here's the reply from the DLH Virtual CEO: I got in contact with our system admin and had a very intensive chat with him. I sincerely apologise for distributing your pristine software on my site. I have now taken immediate action and removed all of your FMS data from our site and I have also asked all pilots that have downloaded them to uninstall the data. The screenshot was inevitably hard to deny. Don't know what is worse, VAs that pirate data and lie about it, or VAs that are totally ignorant about what is on their servers. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted May 12, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted May 12, 2014 The screenshot was inevitably hard to deny. Don't know what is worse, VAs that pirate data and lie about it, or VAs that are totally ignorant about what is on their servers. Ahh yeah that us a recurrent reply.... 'some user' put it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyFsxHD 16 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I saw that the VA is still working today. What happened to them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted July 29, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted July 29, 2014 I think they still operate and I assume they are still pirating as the same people are in control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyFsxHD 16 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Oh okay, I though that something would of happened to them because they're pirates of course but also mostly because I hate one of the CEO ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen O'Connell 17 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 A new one today: Ottoman Airlines. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted August 1, 2014 How did they react when you confronted them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen O'Connell 17 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Mathijs, I haven't heard back from them yet. Will post here when/if I do. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mseiwald 79 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thats very interesting. This VA is member of our VA alliance. We do not tolerate when our member VAs are involved in illegal activity. I have reported this to our alliance CEO as well and we will have to decide what actions we will take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabian Boulegue [old] 213 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thats very interesting. This VA is member of our VA alliance. We do not tolerate when our member VAs are involved in illegal activity. I have reported this to our alliance CEO as well and we will have to decide what actions we will take. Great to hear that.... Fabian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thats very interesting. This VA is member of our VA alliance. We do not tolerate when our member VAs are involved in illegal activity. I have reported this to our alliance CEO as well and we will have to decide what actions we will take. Great! I know piracy is not a thing we can prevent totally. but as I said before, we sponsor VA's and we believe they are an intergral part of our hobby. But I'll be damned if I accept them to allow institutional piracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeriL 1 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hello All, i just got the heads up of this post by the Staff. as i clearly see that the VA used contend thats pirated we will take clear actions to them as we do not allow this as stated in our minimum requirements. we put our efforts to Support developers in Fighting piracy so they can continue to bring great new stuff into the FS world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeriL 1 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "Update" just got in toutch with the Vice and he replied they will be removing them. iff further action is needed let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted August 1, 2014 "Update" just got in toutch with the Vice and he replied they will be removing them. iff further action is needed let me know Good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlins 0 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thank U Mathijs and Stephen for your actions. You're my heroes. You've save the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen O'Connell 17 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Guys - thank you for your support! Taking the opportunity to throw in three more. I have contacted them all, awaiting reply. Still haven't heard from Ottoman. LH-Virtualairline (LH-Virtual.com) Platinum Airways Air Danubius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 2, 2014 Author Aerosoft Share Posted August 2, 2014 Goddamn, we sponsor one of them... Not any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Reverse 344 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 ...You've save the world. Let us agree that they take a homeopathic small part of them in attack. But there is quite a bit more to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stijn 0 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Platinum Airways To Stephen: My apologies, this indeed should never have appeared. The file has been deleted. Stijn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted August 2, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted August 2, 2014 Platinum Airways To Stephen: My apologies, this indeed should never have appeared. The file has been deleted. Stijn File? Hopefully all files. But anyway, we will monitor it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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