From what I’ve seen, there have been a large number of free scripts from a large number of users, that have now been converted to paid scrips by a small number of other users. Am I losing my mind?
Edit: It seems there is some confusion to what I outlined. What I’m saying is one creator posts a free script, after some time a different creator posts the exact same script as a paid script and the original free script is taken down. I’m not talking about a single creator changing their own free script to a paid script. I’m also not saying it’s against the rules, it’s just something I’ve noticed quite frequently as of recent.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
If the author of the original script is taking their own free script and putting it under paid thats their prerogative. It is their script and can technically do what they want with it.
If you’re talking about other users taking that said script and reposting it 1 for 1 under their own posts and charging for it, thats not allowed and you should probably point them out and report them. That’s basically theft and is probably against ToS or something. Its at least a taboo in the community.
HOWEVER if it is literally people taking a video that has already been scripted for free and then making their own paid script, that’s fine. There are many videos that have one author making a free version and another making a paid version. This happens a lot, sometimes people are working on the same video at the same time. Othertimes its new people wanting to make a script for a video that they’re interested in.
If these aren’t the situations you’re talking about you REALLY have to clarify what you mean.
It sounds to me like you’re saying a few users have moved topics in Scripts > Free Scripts to Scripts > Paid Scripts which might be a legitimate thing to do if these topics don’t conform to the forum’s Definition of Free Scripts.
It can be done well or poorly, depending on the user’s understanding of the rule (and of course anyone can make mistakes despite understanding it).
Yeah, so I’m sure a decent amount of formerly free scripts no longer fit that category. Moving them to paid is a service to the forum that we ought to be thankful users are providing.
To put short, it now requires download links of the script to not be barricaded with procedures like signups, memberships, provision of e-mail or ads. So the following example would previously be considered Scripts > Free Scripts, but not anymore:
If the script requires a Patreon / Fantia membership to obtain, even if it’s a free membership.
If it’s hosted on Gumroad for free, but still requires you to provide an e-mail to download.
Trust lv.3 users have the ability to recatgorize others’ topics and what you see are them help curating the site. But if there’s something you don’t agree with feel free to flag it for moderators to look at.
The new thing here is it was free and now its paid, which is a bit nuts as it already is free in the wild and can be shared by definition. Maybe ES should update the rules to once free always free.
Is it ok to share/reupload once free scripts with videos? I have like 2TB of scripts which were (almost all) free to download. But i dont wanna check if they are still available somewhere when someone asks for it. So i can just share a direct download from my NAS. Or is this not allowed here?
I have noticed this as well: a free script is tagged with VR and non-VR, with the VCR version behind a paywall. Should that have been two posts? A free-script post for the non-VR and a paid script post for the Patreon VR version?
This is what I’m talking about. A different creator posting the exact same script under the paid section. The original free script is taken down though, so it seems like something more is going on behind the scenes which makes me think it might not necessarily be against the rules. This is just something I’ve noticed recently.
Kind of on topic. But when multiple scripters that use (trained/learn with) the same scripting techniques all script the same video. How similar are their completed works. Do they ever match unitentionally.
I would think the more experienced ones would have created their own signature move/patten as a way to identify their work.
Just curious.
We would need an example of this happening cause a lot of people aren’t seeing this happening.
You should also probably show proof that its the same or at least bring it to the attention of the community/mods, cause I’m sure there’s a few people willing to go through the meta data or the script itself and double check since you’re basically claiming plagiarism/theft.
Like you don’t need to make call out posts, but reporting it, or asking some people in the discord to check the scripts, or even asking the poster if this is a second account are all probably actions you can take.
Sometimes its the creator taking their free script and changing accounts for w/e reason. Cause I’ve seen a few people who posted under one account swapping to using a different one as their main.
If its not the same person, then taking another script and putting it under their name whilst charging for it, is absolutely against community guidelines.
At minimum you should report it or bring it to the attention of the mods since if its actually theft that’s a problem that needs to be handled..
I am not claiming theft is occurring at all. The original poster takes it down so I assume there is some sort of agreement or exchange happening in the background. If the original free post and new paid post were up at the same time, then I would assume something differently, but that’s not what I’ve seen happening. This is why I’m not calling out specific posts because there aren’t enough flags to assume wrongdoing.
It’s a few creators posting paid scripts that were originally posted by many other creators, so I doubt they are posting it under a new account owned by the same person.
If you check through some of the high-volume paid-script posters you’ll probably find one but I’m not going to call anyone out unfairly when I have no evidence to suggest that theft is occurring, especially while people continue to make such an assumption.
Flag one or more such posts with a description of the issue so that the mods can look into it if you believe something is going on that shouldn’t happen.