They are directly profiting from the stolen bandwidth and Not only are they stealing our bandwidth and preventing us from being able to recoup that loss, they also have their own ads all over their site and application. At the rate they were going, if they were allowed to continue using our resources without any compensation, they were going to drive us right out of business. Of course, this means the ads aren't generating any revenue to pay for the bandwidth. WowMatrix bypasses our download pages, and, as a result, people are not viewing the ads. The way we pay our bills is through site ads, which are directly dependent on users viewing them, and premium memberships. WowInterface and Curse use a lot of bandwidth every month which costs a lot of money. They have finally stopped hosting the addons on their own site, but they still deep-link from our sites, using our resources to run their program. Originally, they scraped our sites so they could upload addons to their own site without permission, in addition to deep-linking from our sites. WowMatrix leeches from the legitimate hosting sites without permission, let alone compensation.Until the community raised a hue and cry, Wowmatrix didn't even supply the authors' names as to who wrote the addon, let alone provide a link to where the addon was legitimately hosted.This leads to authors having users complain about bugs, bugs that were fixed days or weeks ago in versions that are available on the legitimate sites, causing problems for both the authors and for the end-users In a lot of cases the files served to users have been many versions out of date.They have failed on many occasions to honour authors' requests to remove addons from their application.They edited authors' files to remove donation requests and links to their home sites, etc.When they first started they would scrape the legimate sites for addons then upload them to their own site in addition to deep-linking from the sites.They redistribute addons without authors' permissions.WowMatrix violates author copyright and intellectual property rights:.Recently WoWInterface and Curse got together to come up with a solution for an ongoing problem.
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