|
As a creator of many shirts and pants on ROBLOX, there is nothing worse than finding out that not only has someone copied your item... but they also have a higher price, lots of irrelevant tags and (most annoyingly) MORE sales than you do. It is a form of scamming as other people are making robux off of your hard work, and yet ROBLOX has done nothing to prevent this.
EVIDENCE OF COPIED CLOTHING
A recent example of when one of my items has been copied is when I created the following pants: https://www.roblox.com/catalog/483476644/Total-Drama-Heather
This item has been copied twice so far and has already sold more times than my own.
Copied pants (Avoid buying these):
https://www.roblox.com/catalog/487942444/Total-Drama-Heather
https://www.roblox.com/catalog/487942487/Total-Drama-Heather
Users often do not know which item is the original copy, and so buy an item regardless. But as someone who puts time and effort into making shirts and pants, I am aware that it can be upsetting as a creator if you are not getting the credit and recognition you deserve.
HOW TO FIX THE ISSUE
Personally, I would suggest that ROBLOX adds a feature when you configure shirts and pants, that allows you to hide or show the template to other users. This would allow the creator to choose whether or not they're happy with their item being copied.
Another method could be to add a watermark on top of every template, as this would deter users from copying clothes as their item would also include this mark if they were to reupload it.
If you think you have a better idea, please post it as ROBLOX really should act on this problem. |
|
|
I have got a better idea.
Report the copies of your content for defaming. |
|
|
You can't, I had tried this and nothing happened. I even emailed ROBLOX support and they claim there is nothing the can do as it is not against the rules of ROBLOX. |
|
|
Technologically impossible.
Your template IS what makes your shirt visible to other users. The actual "shirt" object is nothing but a decoy item to buy access to that template.
If you hide the template to other users, nobody will be able to see it but you. Who's going to buy a shirt they can't see or show off to friends?
If you add a watermark to the template, you're going to have a big ugly watermark broken up across your shirt. Because, again, your shirt IS your template.
|
|
|
I see your point, but what I meant was for other users to not have access to viewing the template itself... Not for the template to be blocked completely.
As for the watermark, there would be ways to make it not permently part of the template, and just display it whenever someone views it. But I see that it may be complicated.
Thanks for your criticism though, my ideas were just suggestions and need improvement to make them possible. |
|
|
The only way to do this would be checking the user agent string, because the ROBLOX client downloads that template automatically when it loads a user's shirt. Go ahead and play a game while running Fiddler, you'll see a bunch of templates being downloaded.
Bypassing this would be ridiculously easy though. All you have to do is find ROBLOX'x UAS (your average twelve year old probably can't do this but only one person needs to find it and leak it. It's super easy too.) and spoof it in your browser. Takes a minute max. Google "how to change user agent" if you want to see how simple it is.
As for overlaying the watermark onto the template, this wouldn't stop people from just requesting the asset directly the same way the ROBLOX client does it.
Finally, ROBLOX doesn't "know" what is and isn't a template, so filtering access would be really difficult. It's stored as a RobloxImage, the same way decal's actual images are stored. As far as ROBLOX is concerned, you just uploaded a decal. It's the shirt object that says "this image is my template", the image itself is not bound to any shirt.
|
|
Beril2001Join Date: 2009-07-07
Post Count: 53 |
I always open the template to see if the clothing has been copied (most copiers don't even bother chaging the template). I think roblox should make a feature that can detect if a very similar version of a clothing has been uploaded previously. (I don't know if possible but hope it is, as a clothes maker I find copiers really annoying.)
|
|
|
|
Here's the only way I can think of to stop clothes copying to anyone that isn't too skilled at editing photos:
When you download a template, add some sort of shading along the bottom of the template, outside of the actual clothes region. This shading will be unique to every user and will be a sort of ID watermark. When you upload a shirt, this watermark has to match the one you would get when you download it.
Obviously replacing the watermark is trivial but more than most clothes copiers can do. |
|
|
it doesnt need to be a rule because thats useless |
|
|