For many reasons. Most importantly your continued ignorance to moral and legal issues that I explained in private messages. I will post my messages in the bottom of this post so others can see what I wrote.
You did not. Not even now does the app explicitly say on each page/view that the screenshot, description, tags, rating, everything, is taken from Quaddicted.
It does not matter anyways. You do not have permission to use our content and you will not receive it. Stop publishing and distributing illegal copies of our data.
Let me remind you that this is completely irrelevant and that this does not give you any right to copy and re-use any of it in the way you did. Stop publishing and distributing illegal copies of our data.
From what I read on Doomworld, you tend to use AI tools. Maybe you use them for communication too? If you do not understand what I am saying, maybe consider asking another person who speaks your language to help you. And if you use AI translation for your answers, consider asking another person who speaks your language to check, if the translation actually transports your intended meaning.
I will not continue to waste time and energy on this.
My private messages to Hakros (of course I won’t publish their private responses here without permission):
June 29th:
I applaud your enthusiasm and have to say that this looks pretty slick! But it looks like you took all content from the Quaddicted map releases database and even built a competing website with it? Descriptions, screenshots, tags, even ratings are “stolen” from Quaddicted.
This is not ok. I am really sad and pissed off that there is not even a single notice about the source of the data.
I am not sure how to respond right now so if you have suggestions how to fix the situation, please shout. If you want to collaborate, an interface to the DB (that looks this nice!) could be added to quaddicted.com itself. I am sure it would be a highlight for many users.
For now please at least add appropriate credit as soon as possible (e.g. with links to the corresponding pages at Quaddicted or something similar).
Btw: Be aware that the Quake Injector XML will probably not be updated anymore. The new DB has a PostgREST API which will enable people to build nice dynamic tools on top of it (and yes, it will require attribution…).
July 6th:
Hey,
By now I have had enough time to think about this:
That terms page was not there when you posted the initial announcement. And at least on my phone it redirects to /download.php which then redirects to https://hakros.itch.io/hakros-quake-launcher
And it is nowhere near enough for what your site (and app) do.
At the bottom you even claim “Copyright © 2024-2029 Hakros Interactive. All rights reserved.” which is absolutely not ok. You do not have any rights on the content you have taken so slapping a copyright notice on it is dishonest and misleading.
I am not sure if we can find a good resolution unless you change quite a few things. Building a competing website by blatantly copying other people’s work is not ok and I am not sure if adding credit is enough. In its current form, the site definitely does not make it obvious enough that all content comes from an unauthorized copy of the Quaddicted map release database.
Please for now make sure that every single page makes clear that everything (description, tags, screenshot, rating, classification (map/mod), etc) is copied from Quaddicted. And prominently link to each corresponding canonical page at Quaddicted. Please make sure that it does not appear to be official or officially endorsed. On the terms page maybe you could add that it is neither endorsed nor supported by Quaddicted.
Please do the same in the app.
This is not an official agreement that you use our content this way. I am just trying to limit the damage for the time being.
It would be ace if we could find a better solution! As I said, your site looks really nice and useful for users. But I am sure you understand that it is not ok to steal decades of other people’s work without permission and then built a competing service. If you are open for collaboration, maybe we could actually integrate parts of your work at Quaddicted, to improve and extent that site instead.
Sorry for the harsh words, I hope you understand my indignation.
Regards, Spirit
July 6th:
I am trying to find a friendly solution here…
Are you aware that you infringing on our copyright?
July 7th:
It does not matter much that you specify that you have no rights on the contents, it is that you are using them without rights.
Adding just a link back to the profile is not enough. It still makes it appear like the rest is your work. You have no rights to copy and re-publish all this. Do you not understand this?
This could just be a misunderstanding of legal rights but your refusal to even credit your source in any reasonable way (reasonable as in: people immediately know where you took it all from) makes it look pretty malicious.
Add “Data, image, description, tags and rating taken from Quaddicted. This site/app is not endorsed nor supported by Quaddicted.”, with “Quaddicted” being a link to https://www.quaddicted.com/ now. On every page!
As before, this is not an approval or licensing of the data to you, but a temporary measure. I am trying to limit the damage. We might require you to take it down completely. Your responses are not assuring me in any way that you have good intentions towards Quaddicted and make it appear like a hostile grab of our content.
Cheers, Spirit
July 8th:
There is no mention on the homepage, on the list of packages nor on the detail page of a package.
It still gives the immediate impression that all that content is by you. People do not read “license” pages nor is hiding the provenance there in any way appropriate.
Here are some suggestions, if you cannot come up with appropriate credit:
I am serious about this. Make an honest effort to stop misrepresenting the data. It is 100% from Quaddicted (via the Quake Injector, our official tool). You must make that obvious to everyone, everywhere.
If you continue to not properly and ethically credit the source of all this data, I will stop trying to find a solution and also make it public that this is based 100% on stolen content. I am losing my patience here.
Cheers, Spirit
July 20th:
I gave you ample time to reconsider your replies, are you going with what you said in https://discuss.quaddicted.com/t/re-hakros-quake-launcher-1-1/7542/11 or do you want to reconsider what you said above? Your last two messages are sending quite a mixed signal.
No, it is not enough how you display it now. As I said before: I require that the user must be told the source of the data on every single “page”. The mockups I did were obviously tongue-in-cheek after your continued refusal to properly credit the data source… There would be much more reasonable ways to do so, but you never gave the impression to care so I had a bit of artistic freedom.
I hope that you are aware that you have no legal rights to take this data and content. If not, I suggest you do some research and act accordingly.
One thing that is important to understand my harsh and angry position here: You say “have given you credit from the very beginning”. That is not true. The site quakelauncher.com did not credit Quaddicted in any way when you advertised it here. The “LICENSE” link appeared only later. Or was there another place on the site where the legal status and source was displayed? I am not talking about the app here although I wonder how things were displayed in the first versions.
Also, it’s petty but: I did offer collaboration, you did not respond to that.
