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[Konterhalbe]

2 hours ago, Mir // Flightbeam said:

I am not aware, or have any reason to suspect that Amsim is involved in the piracy scheme that BMW is involved in.

@Mir // Flightbeam seems like Peter113 might be someone from Amsim? I was curious about "Peter's" name history on the AVSIM forums and found this:



PavelAM sounds very much like a Forum name someone from AMsim would choose...
However, this no indication on wether or not "PavelAM" is involved in piracy issues.

What a strong indication will be in the upcoming days: if he didn't knew about what his russian buddy does, he'll cancel the partnership with Alexey.
If he (at least) doesn't really care about his business partner's practices, the partnership will continue.

Just my thoughts on this...

Edited November 13, 2024 by Konterhalbe

[Mir // Flightbeam]

20 minutes ago, Konterhalbe said:

@Mir // Flightbeam seems like Peter113 might be someone from Amsim? I was curious about "Peter's" name history on the AVSIM forums and found this:



PavelAM sounds very much like a Forum name someone from AMsim would choose...
However, this no indication on wether or not "PavelAM" is involved in piracy issues.

What a strong indication will be in the upcoming days: if he didn't knew about what his russian buddy does, he'll cancel the partnership with Alexey.
If he (at least) doesn't really care about his business partner's practices, the partnership will continue.

Just my thoughts on this...

That is quite an interesting catch. Thanks! Pavel is the developer behind AMSIM, basically confirms the fake account belongs to these guys.
I will record that information for legal reasons and advise the appropriate people.

Edited November 13, 2024 by Mir // Flightbeam

[Gerardius]

4 hours ago, Abriael said:

You may have missed what was mentioned before. I wasn't talking about your specific personal relationship with this developer.

As you can see on his previous website that he conveniently deleted

https://web.archive.org/web/20220125151150/http://beautifulmodelworld.ru/memberships/

He promised his customers an "all you can eat" buffet deal in which they paid a specific (and gradually increasing) sum for all of his airports, present and future, on top of early access to all updates. Then he proceeded to rescind that deal, not only not giving any more new airports to his customers who paid for that deal, but also not delivering updates to them and ghosting them for a whole year, while in the meanwhile selling the same airports on several stores and providing updates only there. 

He may not have bait and word not allowedch-ed you, but he did it to a lot of other people. That's far from being just "drama."

Alongside complete disregard for the law. 

Like you, I and other colleagues were also ripped off, charged the subscription fee and stopped updating products for a year. In addition to that, while ignoring messages on your forum demanding updates, we could see that you started selling your products on the Marketplace and other stores while ignoring us. 

Then, none of his new airports were added to the user website for download, as agreed in the subscription agreement.

The answer he gave was that he developed the new airports with Amsim and therefore could not distribute them on his website because he was no longer the sole developer.

He is an unpresentable, a pirate and a thief.

[Konterhalbe]

44 minutes ago, Mir // Flightbeam said:

That is quite an interesting catch. Thanks! Pavel is the developer behind AMSIM, basically confirms the fake account belongs to these guys.
I will record that information for legal reasons and advise the appropriate people.

Maybe worth double checking encrypted information in "re-pirated" files and blocked customers if Pavel used his business email address for piracy too, just like Alexey did... 🙄
Hopefully Pavel isn't as shady as Alexey is but changing his forum name right before he decided to go on a series of one-sided criticism with the obvious task to boost his own half-finished sceneries just against Flightbeam and LVFR (?) shades no good light at him at all. I would not be surprised if you find some more information linked to a specific armenian mail address .. @Lars II Contrail @virtuali @Mir // Flightbeam

[Farlis]

10 hours ago, virtuali said:

They are obviously encrypted, so nobody could say his data was distributed in the open, nobody can decrypt that data except us and, sure enough, by decrypting the files downloaded a torrent, I could see he was the original sharer, since his data was there, after I ran the custom decryption software.

Reading all of this about him makes me not one bit sorry that he got his accounts frozen when the sanctions agains Russia came into effect.

 

But  on the other hand I call it poetic justice that his own projects are also on those pirate sites. 

Edited November 13, 2024 by Farlis

[Tuskin38]

3 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Reading all of this about him makes me not one bit sorry that he got banned from Contrail. That ban had more to do with the fact that he is Russian and does his business from Russia and after the attack on Ukraine this falls under sanctions in the EU.

 

[Konterhalbe]

10 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Reading all of this about him makes me not one bit sorry that he got banned from Contrail. That ban had more to do with the fact that he is Russian and does his business from Russia and after the attack on Ukraine this falls under sanctions in the EU.

Ah, yeah, Russians are creative when it comes to finding ways to circumvent sanctions.
FS Addon Compare show all "BMWORLD + AMSIM" collab sceneries listed in shops starting from DEC23:
https://www.fsaddoncompare.com/product/2898/Seattle-Tacoma-KSEA

Would be no surprise if Alexey looked for a buddy in a country that's not or less sanctioned than Russia and found someone in Armenia to keep selling his garbage to everyone in the world who enjoys spending a crazy amount of money for freeware quality airports 🤑

Edited November 13, 2024 by Konterhalbe

[Farlis]

5 hours ago, Abriael said:

He promised his customers an "all you can eat" buffet deal in which they paid a specific (and gradually increasing) sum for all of his airports, present and future, on top of early access to all updates. Then he proceeded to rescind that deal, not only not giving any more new airports to his customers who paid for that deal, but also not delivering updates to them and ghosting them for a whole year, while in the meanwhile selling the same airports on several stores and providing updates only there. 

In fairness his business was severely struck when the invasion of Ukraine started and sanctions came into effect. 

It was not the nicest move of him, but I can also see that he was looking for ways to stay afloat in this situation and that the promises he made, were done in a different world that crumbled when Putin's army walzed towards Kiev.

[Farlis]

10 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

 

Yeah I saw that, and changed my original statement, because it was false.

[Abriael]

8 minutes ago, Farlis said:

In fairness his business was severely struck when the invasion of Ukraine started and sanctions came into effect. 

It was not the nicest move of him, but I can also see that he was looking for ways to stay afloat in this situation and that the promises he made, were done in a different world that crumbled when Putin's army walzed towards Kiev.

He was not able to get new customers, but he certainly had already received the payment from his existing ones. 

No one blames him for finding other outlets where to sell his products. What people rightfully blame him for is doing so while *at the same time* ghosting his existing customers and then rescinding the deal they paid for just because he could not get NEW customers for it.

Finding new sales outlets and serving his existing customers were not in conflict. He decided to ignore the latter, I can only imagine in the hope that some of his existing customers would double dip. Only after a year of complaints, he bothered to at least deliver the updates that were given to people who purchased the airports individually, and then he rescinded the deal that was promised as perpetual, which is absolutely unacceptable.

What someone with good business ethics would have done is continuing to honor the deal he had, while simply not accepting new customers. This would have still given him plenty of room to sell new airports to people who were not part of the original deal. Unfortunately, good business ethics weren't part of his reasoning. 

Edited November 13, 2024 by Abriael

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Ruska kurwa.

[omarsmak30]

I found it very interesting, sharing sceneries using work email, I mean does he want to be exposed or what? 

[BMW969]

 

Dear community, I am very shocked by the attack that happened to me.

I would like to give my explanation regarding the current situation.

I GUARANTEE THAT I HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PIRATE COMMUNITY AND HAVE NEVER HAD ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PIRATE COMMUNITY!!!

I respect every developer and take copyright protection very seriously. And I never allowed myself to violate these rights!

I would like to pay attention at the fact that I am being charged with accusations that defame my honor and dignity. I am facing serious charges for a crime that I did not commit - these actions are ILLEGAL: no one has the right to accuse a person without evidence and an appeal to the court. This is against the law. Proof of guilt must occur with the participation of competent authorities. Only a court decision can find a person guilty on the basis of facts, but not on the basis of words. The accuser also posted my personal data online without my consent, which is also illegal.

I am writing to you with the hope that you understand the illegality of these actions and do not support such behavior.

The attack on me was caused by the release of the new Washington airport.

Look, the attacks are not related to the quality of my work, but only contain illegal accusations and insults against me. The author did not choose the honest path of improving the quality of work as a fight, but chose the path of illegal accusations and insults.

There are no monopolies on the release of any product, there is free and fair competition in the market. And the presence of alternative products is aimed at the benefit of buyers who have the opportunity to choose what they like.

When choosing an airport for development, I look at whether the project is interesting to create, and whether it is presented to buyers on the sites where I sell. I have no malicious intent, never have been and never will be.

I love my business, so I try to make high-quality airports so that buyers like to use my product. This is the main message of my work!!! I put my soul into every airport!!! And I am sure that my clients know and appreciate it.

I really hope for your understanding and support!!! Your support is very important to me so that I can continue to create high-quality airports and have the opportunity to continue doing what I love!!!

I ask the author of the accusations to go to court to prove my guilt or to delete posts that contradict the law, contain slander, insults, and also to delete my personal data. 

I ask the moderator to check all posts related to me for compliance with the forum rules.

 

[Lucky38i]

1 hour ago, BMW969 said:

The accuser also posted my personal data online without my consent, which is also illegal.

By acknowledging that FB and Virtuali are discussing your "personal information" (Even though it was sanitized), you've basically confirmed their accusations.

You also aren't being charged with anything, Avsim isn't a courtroom.

Though by your affirming the accusation, you've pretty much set the stage for how the community sees you and your products from now on.

[AnkH]

The "funny" thing is that he obviously invests more energy in telling us that we do something wrong regarding juristic aspects than actually trying to tell us WHY those accusations, which are in my eyes pretty clear cut evidence-based, are wrong. If you have anything to tell, show, proof that evidence shown here is actually wrong, please, show us @BMW969