proflightsimulator.com

[Sealbhach]

It's not actually a scam, if you've read FG's statement on it, it's permitted as long as they don't break any of the GPL rules.

It is a scam because it's false advertising. Have you seen their ads? They have videos and screenshots from FSX in there.

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[curt]

... and they advertise via huge volumes of spam and every possible back handed trick to try to game search engine ratings. They are definitely a group that will say anything and do anything to get a sale, and then once you hand over your money, good luck. And I mean that seriously, anyone who's given the proflightsim guys money really could use some better luck in the future.

[439Tiger]

I was one of the people who got suckered in...

But I was also one of the lucky ones, I managed to get my money back

[omega95]

Yea, it probably IS a scam but it's not illegal... If it is, why doesn't FG sue them?

[kyokoyama]

If it's not illegal, suing isn't really ...practical.
Besides, would it be worth it to spend months and huge sums of money to solve this?

(I mean, it'd be great if we could do that, but since the legal system's just another monopoly now...)
-No offense to those of you that work with the law! Sorry.

anyone who's given the proflightsim guys money really could use some better luck in the future.

-Just another reason why FlightGear advertising helps.

[F-JJTH]

Hi,

I use regulary the phishing report website of Google in order to blacklist this website.
You can do that here : http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

If we are many many many people to report this website as an fake website we can convince Google to blacklist this website then her website will become like this :


I've reported the

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www.proflightsimulator.com

2 times the 18 September

Cheers,
Clément

[Gijs]

Moderator: merged with the existing topic.

sorry in advance if I've posted this in the wrong category. this doesn't really fit into anything.

I was looking around at other flight simulators and found this:
proflightsimulator.com
look at the screenshots. to me it looks exactly like flightgear. in some of them you can see the flightgear toolbar. these guys are trying to sell it for $50 (base package) and $100 for the world scenery. it even has source code available.

[F-JJTH]

Hi 3ric,

Please can you edit you message and put the website domain in code balise as follow :

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proflightsimulator.com

When you use code balise, bots (Google, Yahoo, Bing...) doesn't store the website domain but if you kept the website domain outside of code balise you promote the website domain because bots store it...
Thanks you

Cheers,
Clément

[3ric]

sorry just ignore that post I didn't realize that there was already a thread on it...

[439Tiger]

Here's a new one I just saw on Facebook:

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http://no1realflightsimever.info/

[curt]

It would almost be tempting (hypothetically speaking) to open up a google or facebook ad account and advertise:

DOWNLOAD PRO FLIGHT SIM FOR FREE!!!!!

or

FREE PRO FLIGHT SIM UPGRADES FOR LIFE!!!!!!

etc.

And then link back to FlightGear.

(A little of their own medicine and absolutely truthful)

[Groucho]

It would almost be tempting (hypothetically speaking) to open up a google or facebook ad account and advertise:

DOWNLOAD PRO FLIGHT SIM FOR FREE!!!!!

or

FREE PRO FLIGHT SIM UPGRADES FOR LIFE!!!!!!

etc.

And then link back to FlightGear.

(A little of their own medicine and absolutely truthful)

And unfortunately not legal. FPS is a separate brand and product though based on the same code but still a different and legal product. Claiming a free FPS download leads to a legal allegation of piracy. The fact that we know what is meant does not necessarily mean that an attorney sees it the same way.

[439Tiger]

Well here's another one from my Facebook page

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http://www.airplaneprosimulator.info/

[curt]

I'm not a lawyer, but it's not illegal or piracy to download our own free product. We are just (hypothetically) leveraging the idea that their product is just flightgear. I'm not advocating that someone do this, just pointing out what it might look like to play the game by their rules.

[gooneybird]

Why not something like this:

THINKING OF BUYING FLIGHTPROSIM

As FlightProSim is a rebrand of an earlier version of FlightGear why not try the latest up to date version of the free opensource FlightGear before you buy. (link to flightgear.org)

There surely can't be any problem with that as it's factual.