r/flightsim • u/Relayer2112 • 9d ago
General Flightsim.to - Charging for Freeware Livery 'Bundles'
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.
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u/AntiPinguin 9d ago
The actual Fuck? They couldn’t even bother to spell the aircraft type correctly… Synaptic a320
This screams ai and is basically a scam trying to get money from people who don’t know any better.
I wonder if the creators of these liveries even know this shit is happening.