DefiantRP Plagiarism

Plagiarism:

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

We closed down DefiantRP months ago, and a few months ago the domain expired after Q2F2, Roma and I spoke and agreed that I had no plans on setting up the DefiantRP server again due to lack of interest.

Recently, it has come to our attention that the domain has been purchased by some past players who have created a generic DarkRP server with leaked addons from ScriptFodder, are using the DefiantRP name and brand and calling it a "reborn".

We went on to the server to take a look, only to find that all of our main accounts were banned with silly reasons such as:

引用自 Emmet：

You had your chance

引用自 Q2F2：

Your rewamp sucked...

引用自 Roma：

.

The irony of this is that the server was meant to

引用自 Zoom：

bring back the community.

and banning all of the past owners is doing the opposite of that and could be seen as hostile.

Zoom blocked me on Steam as soon as I added him to question it, and also IP banned (why?) and deleted my account on the forums when I appealed my ban. Evidently, the owner of the server is aware that he is plagiarising our work and isn't proud of it and isn't willing to be civil with us - the people who gave DefiantRP everything.

Some examples of things that are stolen or very similar:

• Website Background is the exact same as the one we used.
  
• Using our logo on their copy of Prometheus.
  
• Using the same store addon (Prometheus) as we did.
  
• PixelExit style as similar to the one we used without paying.
  
• Node layout on the forums.
  
• The jobs on the server.
  
• Similar / same addons (pre-remake).

We discourage going near the server, as it isn't going to last and it's shameful what they're doing with our brand.

Some other reasons it wont last:

• Use of a cheap host for the server (Nitrous-Networks).
  
• Use of a cheap host for the website and domain (HostGator).
  
• Unlikely that anything is licensed, feel free to ask around as we're just assuming.
  
• Staff are unprofessional staff willing to accept anybody in to the staff team.

Feel free to share the DarkRP server you play on below, hopefully some past players can find a decent server that isn't made by people who wanted power, unable to get it - they gave themselves it.