@petesquared23: Paolo Caringal commented on one of our posts that he is proud to reverse engineer our ideas and sell them out of spite. I guess I’m just naive in thinking people can be decent to one another and creative people can share ideas online without all the negativity 😞 #maker #makersgonnamake #makercommunity #makersmovement
and people wonder why I don't post free STLs anymore I got tired of people ripping me off and not giving me any credit
2025-10-23 02:20:48
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CrossandMiter :
It’s not only unavoidable it gets so much worse
2025-10-22 23:52:31
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vince79vette :
AI makes it very easy now to copy someone’s stuff. Specially if there’s things in the picture where you can get dimensions off of. It’s only gonna get worse as AI gets more advanced.
2025-10-23 02:12:22
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Mike Contreras :
Its so frustrating when you create new things or ideas people just want them for free and sometimes you ok giving away some designs. But are they really saying my hours and weeks designing and prototyping shoild be free. Then they'll get mad price is too much and just try to steal the idea and others will steal it and have it mass produced in China for cent on the dollar.
2025-10-23 00:26:15
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WoodChic - FUNctional Wood Art :
So frustrating…. I’ve had similar experiences. Help a friend get with their work only for them to “evolve” to copying our work and claim the idea was their own. SMH.
2025-10-23 00:39:46
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DWortelboer :
perfectly legal bud.
2025-10-23 12:33:18
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Rocket Props :
one of the reasons I never posted mine. people still haven't successfully copied it thankfully, but I definitely have several copycats in other countries
2025-10-23 20:16:47
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_ProbablyAFK :
I always thought sharing STLs was for the good of the community. more road blocks to entry
2025-10-23 21:34:32
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Nightmare Artifact :
He can “reverse engineer” it all they want but it will never be the same. Keep doing you and forget the haters.
2025-10-24 00:04:26
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Race Ready Designs :
sad but 100% true that people lack creativity for new ideas
2025-10-24 02:26:22
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