Game assets stolen, being sold on discord and used by others?

Hey everyone. I apologize if this topic has come up hundreds of times (I’m sure it has) but I need some help with it, and I think my scenario might be different.

So for one of the games I work for, I helped make a map and script it, but one of the people my boss hired took the bare place (This was before most of the scripting was done) and attempted to sell it in multiple Roblox discord servers, some sounding similar to SoNevs and SiddenKavelopers. I requested the ad posts for the map taken down, which they were, and the person who stole them came to an understanding with me, and he agreed to delete the place and he did (I’m positive his copy was deleted, key word his copy).

Anyways, now some other dudes were found trying to sell our map in other servers, and when we dm’d them asking why and that they should take them down, they claimed they were the owners, and refused to take it down. We have overwhelming proof that we own it. We tried DMCA requests against them, but I guess we cannot file another request because it is too soon since we filed the original against the first guy?

tldr; I need some help with how to prevent and deal with issues if the map is sold and used elsewhere. Obviously we cannot police them all, but is there any way that we can find out if the place is being sold, and find out who is selling it? The sellers cannot post in any more of the discords that I requested take down the posts (they are banned) but are there any other ways they can reach out and sell it? Is our best course of action just to DMCA everyone, and report to Roblox? Thanks.

ps this is what the copied place looks like, textures wont load in cuz it is the fake)

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@Cyafu I agree, your choice to DCMA & Report is best, that way the staff can know your reporting said game, for a Copyright Dispute, With the proper proof, you should be able to get it taken down But I don’t know, I’m not staff

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From experience, Roblox handles these requests quite poorly. I’ve provided overwhelming evidence and despite that all they could do was brush me off (even when I had a video of me creating the asset).

Unfortunately, map stealing is something that can’t be prevented no matter what. Once something is leaked, it’s probably leaked forever. Your best option is attempt to file DMCA reports and hope for the best. Usually, it’s best to publish models under your group or account as evidence and only allow access when games are complete.

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