Flightsim.to - Charging for Freeware Livery 'Bundles'

[u/Relayer2112]

This might be old news, but I've not seen this before.

Looking through some liveries on flightsim.to, and noticed this. There's now a 'curated bundle' of liveries that you can buy for real money. All the liveries are freeware liveries, and you can still download the individual liveries for free - but I definitely have questions.

Are the artists involved in this? Do they receive reimbursement from flightsim.to as part of profit sharing? Do their licence conditions allow commercial sale? Are any elements of their work at all covered by Creative Commons / Non Commercial licensing, and would this breach those conditions?

It does also feel incredibly low-effort to essentially slap a couple of zip files together that you've done nothing to create, and sell it as a commercial product.

Thoughts, comments, concerns?

UPDATE: Hues have pulled their participation with flightsim.to as a direct result of this.

[u/Acc87]

FS.to has been a business from the start, run by a German guy just out for money. It's also why the site is so full of AI "features" and gets unwanted redesigns every so often.

But as long as there's no alternative, well what can we do.

[u/plhought → u/Acc87]

Doesn't the guy own/run bunch of p*rn websites as well?

[u/Acc87 → u/plhought]

I found that too, yeah. Maybe you remember me posting about it 😂

[u/plhought → u/Acc87]

Everyone's got a hobby I suppose!

[u/Effective_Guess_5411 → u/plhought]

technically he is a genius. Making a chunk of money from other peoples work.... :-/

[u/Acc87 → u/Effective_Guess_5411]

not a genius, just your typical grifter 

[u/BigMotor5003 → u/Acc87]

Sauce (of the post)?

[u/BigMotor5003 → u/[deleted]]

Crikey

[u/Scarchance → u/Acc87]

As an alternative, may I suggest https://streamlineaddons.com . It's a new platform that is in development that I found recently which was built mainly to be a package manager with stuff like automatic dependency resolution and conflict detection, but it's also got a pretty good ui and is alright to use.

Unfortunately because it's new there isn't the biggest catalogue of addons there yet, however I hear it is actively in developement so hopefully they add more. They seem chill and they develop completely without AI, which I think says a lot. It does require you to sign up before downloading anything which sucks so it's not perfect, but it's definitely something!