Copybot Claim Investigation - 09FEB10

[Lestat Umarov]

Details of the investigation as follows:

I recieved word from Anlysia Gregoire that aryte had been informed of a potential copybot claim.

[2010/02/09 18:25] Anlysia Gregoire: [18:17] Aryte Vesperia: [18:16] Carl Landfall: (Saved Tue Feb 09 12:30:51 2010) Hi Aryte, i heard that the FRAG weapons are made of copybot of the Titan ones , could you confirm me that ?, if its the case i will remove all FRAG vendors from my

I proceeded to IM said Carl Landfall and ask him about the vendor/creator in question to which he sent me a tp.

[18:29] Carl Landfall: hi lestat how are you ?

[18:29] Lestat Umarov: Not too bad

[18:30] Carl Landfall: theres the frag vendor

[18:30] Lestat Umarov: Waiting for it to rez fully

[18:30] Carl Landfall: the owner of frag is FadeOut Razorfen

[18:31] Lestat Umarov: Which weapon do you think was copybotted?

[18:31] Carl Landfall: this one

[18:33] Carl Landfall: a good friend of mine a builder told me that

[18:33] Carl Landfall: so i prefer have confirmation before removing the vendor

[18:34] Lestat Umarov: We don't have an M82 in Titan industries

[18:35] Carl Landfall: and by the way if its the case advise the creator who get copyboted

[18:35] Carl Landfall: ok

[18:35] Lestat Umarov: The only m82 I know of is the one in my hand

[18:35] Lestat Umarov: And it looks a bit different

[18:35] Carl Landfall: my friend told me he use parts of the titan weapons

[18:36] Lestat Umarov: 1 sec

[18:36] Carl Landfall: he may not copy integrally a specific weapon

[18:37] Lestat Umarov: Do you have the m82 from frag?

[18:37] Carl Landfall: no

[18:38] SnowiDragon Snowdrop is Online

[18:38] Carl Landfall: i could buy one to show you

[18:38] Lestat Umarov: Does your friend know which guns and which parts were from the titan weapons?

[18:39] Carl Landfall: surely i will give you his name so you could ask him

[18:39] Lestat Umarov: Alrighty

[18:39] Carl Landfall: his name is Bonzai Amat

[18:39] Lestat Umarov: Thanks

[18:40] Carl Landfall: lol damn hud

[18:40] Carl Landfall: your welcome

[18:40] Carl Landfall: you will keep me informed ?

[18:41] Lestat Umarov: I'll let you know if I hear anything new

[18:41] Lestat Umarov: No need to take down the vendor until I have more information

[18:42] Carl Landfall: ok great thanks lestat hope that there was not any copybot

[18:42] Carl Landfall: but i prefer to be sure

[18:43] Aryte Vesperia paid you L$996.

[18:43] You paid Carl Landfall L$996.

[18:44] ("FRAG"); Affiliate vendor 15% comm. whispers: Thank you for purchasing from FadeOut Razorfen. Your product will be delivered shortly. (If Second Life is being slow, it can take up to 15 minutes). Any problems, contact the merchant: FadeOut Razorfen.

[18:44] hippoVEND Server v2.6 owned by FadeOut Razorfen gave you '("FRAG") M82A1 v2.6 box' ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Denmark/102/2/20 ).

[18:44] ("FRAG"); Affiliate vendor 15% comm. whispers: Thank you for purchasing from FadeOut Razorfen. Your product will be delivered shortly. (If Second Life is being slow, it can take up to 15 minutes). Any problems, contact the merchant: FadeOut Razorfen.

[18:44] hippoVEND Server v2.6 owned by FadeOut Razorfen gave you '("FRAG") M4-LAR v1.0 box' ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Denmark/102/2/20 ).

[18:44] Carl Landfall: i was ready to buy it so it cost you nothing

[18:45] Carl Landfall: but thanks anyway

[18:46] Lestat Umarov: It's fine, thank you

[18:46] Lestat Umarov: I need to closely inspect the builds

[18:46] Lestat Umarov: Thank you for your time

[18:47] Carl Landfall: i will give you my commission

[18:47] Carl Landfall paid you L$150.

[18:47] You paid Carl Landfall L$150.

[18:47] Carl Landfall: lol ok

[18:47] Lestat Umarov: You can keep it for your help

[18:47] Lestat Umarov: Thank you

[18:47] Lestat Umarov: lol

[18:47] Carl Landfall: ^^

[18:47] Carl Landfall: your welcome

[18:47] Lestat Umarov: I'll see you later

[18:47] Carl Landfall: ok cya

I left Bonzai Amat a message regarding his claim and proceeded to inspect both weapons from the FRAG vendor with Console Mission. There were no similarities between the FRAG M4 and any titan or ordo weapons. The M82 however turned out to be the same weapon Cheeso sells through CGE save for the root prim which was different.

In closing I intend to get in contact with Cheeso to speak with him about the M82. Aside from that no threats to Titan Industries Assets found.

[Aryte]

Thank you.

[Lestat Umarov]

Just as a follow up on the previous post...

Bonzai Amat left me an offline message stating that the weapons looked similar to some Titan weapons and that he was basically just going off a "hunch". Since Console and I both looked at the FRAG weapons and found no similarities with TI weapons I don't find his claim very credible. I also spoke with cheeso about his M82 and found that the original creator simply sold it to someone else before he released it so everything is legit on that end as well.

Considering the whole claim is going off a "hunch" I'm going to go ahead and close the investigation.