   Someone stole my work!
  Hi. I tried joining up to this site a long time ago with neonlights79, one of my friends that use to be on here told me that someone is passing my work of as there own. I looked on this site for any trace but I had to sign up again with neonlights79_2. I found a thread called "Need help for my story? (details inside.)" I know him/her from another site where I told him/her about my idea. I have asked him/her to tell people who he/she has told that this was his/her idea to say that it wasn't. He/she hasn't replied to any of my messages yet and that was around three months ago. I am on the computer he/she was on. I am at my local libarery tonight and I was watching from another computer as my friend saw him/her from across the room saying that it's him. I said that you can't know for sure, so I waited until he lefted and got the same computer. I looked on the history and saw that it was him/her. I would like some answers to why he/she has stole my work and why he/she wouldn't tell people that he had stole it. Please ban him striaght after you get a reason to why, as I have spent a long time on thinking about designing this idea and I don't want stolen by someone who thinks that they can use it for there own good.   
  Proof:http://pli.planetlara.com/discuss_fullthread.asp?topic=Off-topic&thread=227108http://pli.planetlara.com/discuss_fullthread.asp?topic=Level%20Editing&thread=206265   ;  Okay, first off, I'm moving this to the Lounge.Secondly, what thread on GDNet has your work in it?   ;  Do us all a favor and quit using he/she.  Its either one or the other.What sort of work did this person steal?  Was it only an idea?  If so, ideas are really a dime a dozen, unless it is something special enough to get patented.  If it was artwork or code or something physical, I could see getting angry about it.Seriously though, if it was just an idea for a game or something, I wouldn't worry about it.  If I had a 1/100th of a penny for every game that someone started making and failed horribly to complete it, I would probably be a millionaire.  The chances of someone taking your idea (if thats what they took) and doing something amazing with it is incredibly slim.   ;  well.http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=386473&whichpage=1&#2569294The story part he/she typed I sent to him/her in a pm. He/she wanted to know what my "Great" game idea was. I thought he/she wouldn't of stole it as he/she said it was rubbish. I tought wrong, didn't I.   ;Quote:Original post by neonlights79_2Please ban him striaght after you get a reason to why, as I have spent a long time on thinking about designing this idea and I don't want stolen by someone who thinks that they can use it for there own good.Ah ha, so it's a male.   ;Quote:Original post by MoeDo us all a favor and quit using he/she.  Its either one or the other.What sort of work did this person steal?  Was it only an idea?  If so, ideas are really a dime a dozen, unless it is something special enough to get patented.  If it was artwork or code or something physical, I could see getting angry about it.Seriously though, if it was just an idea for a game or something, I wouldn't worry about it.  If I had a 1/100th of a penny for every game that someone started making and failed horribly to complete it, I would probably be a millionaire.  The chances of someone taking your idea (if thats what they took) and doing something amazing with it is incredibly slim.Well. When you have problems of thinking up names and ways to make more than one sentance of text to make your story intresting then it is a big thing to get angrey about.   ;Quote:Original post by Jack SotacQuote:Original post by neonlights79_2Please ban him striaght after you get a reason to why, as I have spent a long time on thinking about designing this idea and I don't want stolen by someone who thinks that they can use it for there own good.Ah ha, so it's a male.pwnt lol :)The first link of proof gives a 404 error.   ;  Unfortunately in this business you sometimes have to be prepared to get your ideas stolen. The good thing is that considering that ideas are a dime a dozen, they only stole the equivelant of 0.833 cents.The only thing you can do is develop your own game and get it out there. Idea steal happens all the time, but ideas and stories alone are worth not much if not developed.There's much work to be done before an idea becomes a game, and only those dedicated to the idea will really want to finish it. You might be annoyed that they are "stealing" your idea now. But they won't capitalise on it and you can have it all to yourself again. Until then just stick it out and keep telling people what that person is really up to.   ;  It looks like their story concept got ripped to shreds in the other thread, so you might as well continue on and make up a new one.Sadly, ideas are a dime a dozen. A friend of mine has a 1600-plus page novel kicking around.I also have no proof that the idea came from you first; you'll probably need to square it with the individual first.Regardless, I cannot see the user in question having the ability to develop the game any time soon, whether on his own or by recruiting others.   