Why I stopped sharing my resources and what to do next

1. One thing is clear, we can not stop leeching, none of us can. This is reality, we have to be habituated to it.
2. We are indeed also leecher, yeah many people here purchase resources, but many top contributors also leech other websites, I won't take their name, but I found the signature of other GPL websites inside their own resources as well. So, what should I call this?
3. Many new people here leech from another website just to help people over here with good intension. That thing is appreciable, So, sometimes leeching is also good.

Venomous said:

You are sharing the nulled scripts here on this forum! So take some time and think about the actual developers who developed their themes/scripts and made it license protected. And now irony is you are worried about it being leeched and protection? WOW! Slow Claps!

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xantor said:

I totally agree with @mader, btw, I have not read the entire thread, so I may repeat something said before.

1. We are sharing resources here that are usually protected by the original developer, so it is ironic that we propose implementing a license scheme for software that we work so hard defeating their original license scheme.
2. This community is about sharing resources, specially for people that are starting, but the majority of us, who are seriously in business don't use nulled plugins or themes, because if you are seriously in business you don't have the time to look for new versions, download, then upload, then test.... then repeat on all your sites. If you are making money you prefer to pay for support and automatic updates.
3. If we want to promote Babiato as a safe haven for safe resources, the only way I see, at the moment, that could work, it's an old recipe. Add a readme file or NFO file to all our downloads, indicating where it came from, who we are and a link to verify the files' checksum against a database of available downloads, this way anybody can make sure he/she has an "Original" resource form Babiato.
4. The last point has a caveat, if we make our forum too popular and people know for sure that Babiato releases are safe, then our Community becomes a big problem, and they may try to shut us down. That is because the virii and malware usually found in nulled software serves as a protection to the Original sellers, but if suddenly there is a community that offers the same product, for free and safe to use. Well, you can fill in the blanks. Of course this is a hyperbole, just in case we become too popular.
In conclusion, it is my opinion that we should not even think about licenses, it makes no sense, at the most we may think about implementing a checksum database, unless someone has a better idea.

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die2mrw007 said:

Adding passwords and asking for passwords in DM for each single resource will kill the forum spirit.

I guess we had this kind of discussion previously too but didn't end up well.

What I suggest is to disable download of resources until the member reaches certain message or thanks number.

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die2mrw007 said:

Why is this thread even started in the first place? We have discussed about these things numerous times and reached nowhere.
Instead of discouraging people to share resources by starting such threads, we should overlook such small things as the forum spirit and people here are important.
This thread is in negative scale in my view and pointless.

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slvrsteele said:

Babiato spirit is this:


So no paid subscriptions, no clubs. Tho conditions may apply. As I won't give to everyone a script worth more than $500~$1000 because most won't know what to do with it and just get it to resell it on my back.

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CyberDeviL said:

If I had to give my opinion on this :::

Frankly,
What we do here? Not letting the main developers (good or bad) earn their money they actually deserve.

For example: Suppose in near future I become some script developer who sells really useful theme/plugin modules, now few people start re-distributing them.

SO, ARE NOT THEY HARMING ME? ONE CAN NOT DENY THIS.

I personally have seen a few themes, plugin developers who respond to my (customer) query very very fast, even one day I noticed the developer from ThemeForest replied to me within 10 minutes!


Will such good developers/team love that customer sharing their resources freely to somewhere else just for sake of name/popularity?

Even, frankly, I withdrew some resources from my share early in 2019, cause I truly thought deceiving those good team members won't be a generous idea to me.


FINALLY, REGARDING THIS TOPIC:

1. One thing is clear, we can not stop leeching, none of us can. This is reality, we have to be habituated to it.
2. We are indeed also leecher, yeah many people here purchase resources, but many top contributors also leech other websites, I won't take their name, but I found the signature of other GPL websites inside their own resources as well. So, what should I call this?
3. Many new people here leech from another website just to help people over here with good intension. That thing is appreciable, So, sometimes leeching is also good.

If we can't set any global rule to be applicable to over 100% of people here (which is impossible) we should just let it go as it is.

IN REALITY, WE INDEED ARE LEECHER TOO, I AM A LEECHER MYSELF, @Tomz IS LEECHER TOO, BUT WE ARE TYPE OF GOOD LEECHER AS I MENTIONED IN ABOVE POINT #3.

IN SHORT & PRECISE:

WE LEECH OTHER, SO WHEN OTHER LEECHES US WE SHOULD NOT BE ANNOYED, DISTURBED, CREATE ADDITIONAL BARRIERS. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE FIRST STARTED IT, I - WE ARE ALREADY IN THE SAME LINE.

This is how it should work, If We expect to value our own works, we need to value other leecher's works also, we also need to value the main developer's jobs as well . .


THANK YOU . . .

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medw1311 said:

You do realise that some of us have spent thousands of $$$$ of our own money to provide you with constantly updated resources that you can use FREE of charge?

So yes we are going to get pissed off when we see other sites selling and profiting from what we have paid for and provide to you for free.

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