Unity Assets Piracy

Hello!

Recently i found a torrent website where there are paid unity assets available for free, and it looks like they get downloaded alot. (Not sure if i am allowed to link the website here?)

I think this is annoying since I am making assets myself and put alot of work into them, so shouldn't there be some kind of way to detect if assets have been bought or not when opened inside Unity?

 

Might report it to support.

For detection there is not much that can be done. Anyone can export and import the assets to new package and distribute. There is no good way to include license or any other kind of protection to images, source code etc.

 

Just report it to support@unity3d.com and they will pass it to legal thanks!
As for protection of assets, you can do it if you set up a license server and use a serial ie your asset invoice number with it to cross check (would need a dll to handle it too). Seems like a lot of bother really.

 

Happens to everybody. I had like 7 sales total shortly after initial release and found a torrent of mine with 60-something seeders and 30-something leechers.

UAS staff is well aware of most of the sites doing it. A lot of links get reported but the threads where we discuss the issue usually boil down to it not being worth the trouble to hunt down links or build in custom security or verification for your asset. 0-day crack releases are basically commonplace these days and people are going to host it on torrents or tons of mirrors eventually. Honestly the best antidote is to probably just release updates frequently so the regular pirate users have incentive to buy it to stay up to date instead of waiting for a pirated shared version update.

 

Look, people will pirate it either way. Pirates are not customers.

However, if someone has the guts to publish a game created using pirated assets that calls for legal action. IMO.

 

you'd think developers would be better then the average person (in terms of not pirating) but its not the case. I have to wonder if pateron is not a better solution although support would be a nightmare and probably not worth it.

 

This thread is copied from this older thread? http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-assets-piracy.352166/

 

One thing to keep in mind about pirates. If they are cheap enough to steal your content, they wouldn't have purchased it in the first place. Or in other words, if they had no way to torrent and steal your work, there is only a very small chance they would have purchased it anyway.

 

That is soooo weird @da_st. That person literally copy-pasted your thread there. Bot?

 

Bots usually post links to something.

 

Yea maybe seems kinda sketchy

 

Yeah probably a bot then as copy post are usually used to evade instant ban and initiate real looking account that has more rep than random content 1st post.

 

People pirate because they think it makes them look smart, cool, tough, and computer savvy but it really makes them look like they need to go outside and play.

 

Closed because of copy/paste topic. No duplicate topics, and if you're a spambot, you will be exterminated.

--Eric