Taken from Tactikz former blog....
Dear readers,
As some of you already know, a villain was exposed yesterday within the Football Manager scene. A villain whose ultimate goal was centred around fame, recognition and applause throughout the Football Manager community. To achieve this quick fix of fame, he ‘ripped’ my FM Grid tactic, made two slight adjustments and renamed it – only to release it to the community, passing it off as his tactic, under the name People Power. The villain’s name is Mr Hough, who resides at the official SI Forum.
This shameful and distasteful act didn’t go unnoticed however. Oh no. I had been keeping tabs on ‘his’ latest tactical release for quite some time, following his comments on the official forum, as well as discussions leading up to the release via Twitter. Needless to say, the tactic was a blatant rip of my hard work and Mr Hough has since been fully exposed for what he is. A plagiarizing swine.
This is probably not the first time he has done this either, as many FM veterans have voiced concerns, while lacking hard evidence.
Many people have had suspicions about his dirty and seedy activity for some time, but needed the evidence to finally put the nail in the coffin. This evidence was provided last night.
Mr Hough is highly skilled in the art of downloading other people’s tactics, for the sole purposing of passing them off as his own creation. That goes without saying. He is a true champion in the art of stealing other people’s work. A figure of high standing within the dark and seedy tunnels of the Football Manager underworld. He has his own followers that seemingly worship the ground beneath his feet, and quite frankly, anyone that supports a ‘ripper’ or plagiarizer, is just as bad. Pure filth. A bacteria that needs to be eradicated.
Why do these people think they have the right to steal other people’s work, only to pass it off as their own? What gives them the right to browse a website, find interesting articles and downloads, only to re-upload them elsewhere without any form of contact or consent? What gives them the right to do these things and think that they can and willactually get away with it? What do they hope to achieve? A pat on the back from the community perhaps? Is it to gain some form of recognition that they lack from society in the real world – to be accepted within the on-line community that they are a part of?
Whatever sick and twisted reasons they have for doing what they do, it’s wrong. So, so wrong, for many reasons.
Plagiarizing effects a lot of people, throughout every profession. That’s not to say what I do is a profession. Of course it’s not. But plagiarizing does exist and it effects all people, even people who work for a living. As an up and coming freelance illustrator, I have to be on the lookout for people taking work from my website and hosting it elsewhere without my permission. Photographers who run their own personal website, have to be aware of people saving and downloading their photographs, for the sole purpose of hosting them elsewhere. Professional journalists have to be aware of people using the dreaded Ctrl C and Ctrl V on their newly published articles.
This explains it on the SI site.
http://community.sigames.com/showth...-1-3-Tactics?p=7872620&viewfull=1#post7872620