RE: message from Harry re:Filter Plagiates

["Martijn W. van der Lee" <mwvdlee@open.net>]

> Hi,
>
>
> I fear some new ff filter plagiates appeared. It's a set called Eric's
> FX.
>
> I identified  the following plagiates:
>
>
> Sandy Blair's "Wood Grain"
>
> Kipp McMichael's "BugEye"
>
> Kipp McMichael's "Streaker"
>
> Kipp McMichael's  "Evanescence"
>
> Chris Kendall's "Mirror"
>
> Martijn W. van der Lee's "Neon" (absolute identical code)
>
> Martijn W. van der Lee's "Compose" (absolute identical code)
>
> Martijn W. van der Lee's  "Pencil" (absolute identical code)
>
> Dennis Crombie's "BeyondEdger" (absolute identical code)
>
> Dennis Crombie's "ColorFade"
>
>
> The ff code of some filters isn't copied one to one, there are only some
> minor
> changes like  val(0,X/2,0) to val(1,X/2,0), but the basic code is the
> same. I think
> only 5 or 6 filters in this package which have a very simple ff code are
> originally
> his.
>
>
> The URL with the plagiated filters is:
>
> <underline><color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param><FontFamily><param>
Verdana</param>www2.cyberzone.net/webnet/index.html</underline></color><Font
Family><param>Times
> New Roman</param><bigger>
>
>
> <FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>It's a nice site, so I don't
> know why he considers it necessary to plagiate filters.
>
>
> Harry<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>
>
>
> <nofill>
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First of all; Thanks for letting me (and the rest of FFDG) know.
Logically, I immediately checked this out and found that, besides the three
filters mentioned above, I found a fourth identical code.
Here's a list of my filters, which have been ripped by eric...

	Original			Eric's
	---------------------------------------------
	Colors, Purify		Intensify ER!
	Effects, Neon		Neon Glow
	Tools, Compose		Picture in picture(*)
	Effects, Pencil		Sketcher

*)  A preview of this filter was not included on Eric's page.

For those wanting to check for their filters; I used PiCo to see the code,
then used Win95's Search/Find (whatever it's called) to search for strings
in my .AFS files, the strings to search for were copied parts of Eric's
recompiled filters. After succesful matches were made the full code was
checked to be absolutely certain.

I'll be mailing Eric soon and will be demanding the removal of my filters
(and I will advise him to remove all other ripped filters) within 24 hours.
If he does not remove them I will contact his ISP and I'll have to see where
it goes from there.

regards,
Martijn.

p.s. The link got "scrambled" due to the html markup in the ascii repost.
Here is it again...
http://www2.cyberzone.net/webnet/index.html