What's on your mind?
01-22-2018, 07:09 PM
So I've been following a saga recently in regards to a PS2 emulator having their code stolen and put on the Google Play mobile market to make money from it.
I want to bring a bit of attention to it for just a moment.
PCSX2 had code blatantly ripped from their emulator and placed into an emulator called "DamonPS2", who began selling it for a lot of money. Apparently, it's possible they also stole PPSSPP code in order to make it possible to play on Mobile as well, which is an even bigger no-no, and they should probably look into the situation as well.
Now, DamonPS2 keep removing the app from the Google Play store a day or two after and putting it back onto the store again and again, in order to prevent a full DMCA claim to go through on the app, since technically they've changed one minor thing or two and that technically makes it a "New" app they need to file a DMCA claim on. It's extremely scummy, and DamonPS2 are making a LOT of money from doing this. Every download costs money. $10 per download in fact. And people keep redownloading it and paying for it over and over again, as well as new victims who are buying it without knowing the situation. If you look on their Facebook page, there are a lot of swooning goofballs who think DamonPS2 are the saviors and sole owners of 100% of the code, and say the PCSX2 team are lying, despite the team having actual evidence of their code being stolen line for line.
DamonPS2 said they would take the app down from the store when they "got 80 million downloads", which... is very unlikely.
They even offered money to the PCSX2 team.
There are people that were paid for good reviews on DamonPS2 that are defending them, saying PCSX2 are lying and the evidence is 100% fabricated, despite there being an "affiliate" link in the description and they don't mention that at all in the video, making their biased views unknown to the viewer.
Where did the DamonPS2 emulator come from? Why now? Where did they get the money to pay for positive reviews? Where are they getting the money to offer the PCSX2 team? (Other than the money they got from the downloads, of course)
This all stinks.
Original post from PCSX2 is here:
https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-The-PCSX...#pid577212
Okay, that's all. Have a nice day.
I want to bring a bit of attention to it for just a moment.
PCSX2 had code blatantly ripped from their emulator and placed into an emulator called "DamonPS2", who began selling it for a lot of money. Apparently, it's possible they also stole PPSSPP code in order to make it possible to play on Mobile as well, which is an even bigger no-no, and they should probably look into the situation as well.
Now, DamonPS2 keep removing the app from the Google Play store a day or two after and putting it back onto the store again and again, in order to prevent a full DMCA claim to go through on the app, since technically they've changed one minor thing or two and that technically makes it a "New" app they need to file a DMCA claim on. It's extremely scummy, and DamonPS2 are making a LOT of money from doing this. Every download costs money. $10 per download in fact. And people keep redownloading it and paying for it over and over again, as well as new victims who are buying it without knowing the situation. If you look on their Facebook page, there are a lot of swooning goofballs who think DamonPS2 are the saviors and sole owners of 100% of the code, and say the PCSX2 team are lying, despite the team having actual evidence of their code being stolen line for line.
DamonPS2 said they would take the app down from the store when they "got 80 million downloads", which... is very unlikely.
They even offered money to the PCSX2 team.
There are people that were paid for good reviews on DamonPS2 that are defending them, saying PCSX2 are lying and the evidence is 100% fabricated, despite there being an "affiliate" link in the description and they don't mention that at all in the video, making their biased views unknown to the viewer.
Where did the DamonPS2 emulator come from? Why now? Where did they get the money to pay for positive reviews? Where are they getting the money to offer the PCSX2 team? (Other than the money they got from the downloads, of course)
This all stinks.
Original post from PCSX2 is here:
https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-The-PCSX...#pid577212
Okay, that's all. Have a nice day.