Congratulations on the sucess you guys have had in shutting this guy down. I feel your frustration. (PHP/MYSQL Developer 12 years)

It is unfortuate that so much Development time had being spent on this. The day that Expertzz has a sollution in place can't come soon enough.

Maybe if they start a library or registry of Mods that works sort of like a copyight office. Developers can have thier new Mods are uploaded there - time and date stamped. Then if a developer sees their mod being sold they see more can open a ticket and have the mods compaired by a 3rd party.

They can levy all kinds of penalties for these pirates the least of which would be what you guys have done; shutting them down, reporting them to Paypal and the authories.

Even if they chagred a registration fee for registered mods to offset their costs, it would serve as a deterent because Pirates like this Cody guy wouldn't which Mods are regstered.

Some exceptions would have to be made for works based on works that significantly alter or improve the original. (We are an open source community after all)

It would work out for us too. We who don't want to write our own Mods but would like to have our ideas unique to our site. You Developers could then charge extra premium for exclusivity when taking a job - then allow the Purchacer to "register" the Mod.

But, we need something like this in place. So you guys can have piece of mind and focus your attention on what you do best - making our sites rock!!!!