I know this issue isn’t new and has been around for years but this is insane at this point.
I mainly use Roblox for just game development and clothing creation nowadays and honestly this is becoming demotivating and downright depressing at points, I’ve had shirts get into the thousands of sales just to be stolen and then mass reported getting the original deleted, and its soul crushing. I find it massively demoting to pour time and effort into my work just to have a low quality stretched out copy of it just copy and pasted to the avatar shop as a new item.
I’ve tried almost everything I can think of to prevent my work getting stolen, randomized names to confuse bots, asking the person to take it down, DMCA request to Roblox, emailing reports to support, watermarking my work, but nothing seems to have any effect, I’ve had all reports just be thrown off as fair use between users, often get blocked after requesting the person who stole it to take it off sale, my watermark is often ignored or just drawn over, random names just lose effect due to tag spam in the item description.
Honestly, trying to have my own content has lead to people leaving transphobic comments on my shirts, mass reporting my shirts, raiding my group, framing my group and myself, just because I requested my content not to be stolen.
Literally any tips on any way I could reduce my content being stolen would help greatly.
I am very sorry to hear about your negative experience. At this point, I don’t think there’s anything you can do other then to file DMCA requests over and over again.
I’ve made several games that were instantly stolen and reused. ROBLOX has been very good with me for the most part on getting them removed, but sometimes after multiple requests I am told “there’s nothing they can do, people will just have them saved on their hard drives and keep reuploading.”
It’s a frustrating issue and I wish they’d address it a bit better, after all we are what makes the game good. I do know they have plans to address the stolen clothing issue.
My advice for now is to just hang in there, keep filing those DMCA reports and keep making clothing until something is done.
As much as I’d like to file another DMCA request it’d most likely be declined due to my clothing still being on sale.
The logic behind it is I’m selling the clothing so its a free to use asset, so any other user can upload it.
I’m basically stuck between a rock and a wall here.
Either take all my work off sale and give my group members nothing for content, or just allow users to profit off what I make.
I really do hope this issue gets advanced on later.
Anyway, thanks for your advice (:
Yeah, that’s the most frustrating part. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, clothing designers 100% get left behind by ROBLOX and I still have no idea why.
Best of luck, if I can help in any other way; feel free to message!
