Buyer Beware - Please do not buy Luftwaffe losses CD "Anglo-Deutsches Erinnerungs Gruppe"

[Jim P.]

The Luftwaffe losses CD "Anglo-Deutsches Erinnerungs Gruppe" as I've come to find out is a copy of my and George Morrison's database from 7-8 years ago, warts and all in Excel format. Please do not reward the unscrupulous jerk who is benefitting financially from our hard work. Unfortunately this guy has already sold 20+ copies -

Anybody who wants or needs proof, I suggest you look up any post where I've posted loss data and check the language syntax and general file layout - we've added several fields over time - date inserted in the middle and bruch %, H/F, Crew & Time at the end - most of you are already familiar with it.

[WEISNER]

What a Crumb, For lack of being unable to swear tactfully!!!!!
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you are able to find a metheod of payback.
I suggest you contact Peter at the LEMB, and post the same there IF OK BY HIM?
I also think you may want to get your updated file copyrighted, and for sale quick advertised as so?
Looks like a hot topic here with three pages of forum talk.

[Peter D Evans]

Hi Kev...

Jim and I have been in contact over this CD and I will be posting a link to this thread on the LEMB...

Cheers

Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Peter Cornwell]

Jim,

If you decide to sue for the theft of intellectual property then I will gladly contribute to the costs involved.

[Dave Wadman]

Good catch Jim!


Some further info - back circa 2002 - 03 Melvin Brownless was circulating letters with the heading of ' The Remembrance Society' and claimed to be a registered UK charity which was quite interesting as there was no registration number given and no trace of a Melvin Brownless (or Melvin Brown as he sometimes goes by) or a UK charitable organisation containing the word Remembrance in the title.

Information given on the headed notepaper was as follows:
The Remembrance Society
Melvin Brownless
60 Springfields
Padbury
Bucks
UK

email: jager2uk@yahoo.ie

No phone number was given and he's hard to track down because he keeps disappearing and reappearing at odd times.

I hope that you do decide to chase him down (and make a formal complaint to eBay). It's people like him that ruin it for everybody else!!

Regards

Dave

[Dave Wadman]

Peter C wrote:
" If you decide to sue for the theft of intellectual property then I will gladly contribute to the costs involved."

You can count me in on that too Jim.

Dave

[Jim P.]

"I hope that you do decide to chase him down (and make a formal complaint to eBay)."

I tried that, but I have to register and activate am account (which I don't really want to do) at which point, since the activation button points back at E-Bay USA, my company's Surf Control kicks in and blocks me. Anyone know another way to reach these guys?

[Jim P.]

Gentlemen, thank you for the support - fortunately wherever this joker got the copy of the database he pirated, it is so old, poorly formatted and so full of holes as to be relatively worthless compared to the current product.

What really chafes of course is that this a-hole has made money off of this, claiming it as his own work - and even having the brass to mock Frank O. and others because they couldn't find things like date.

[Chris Goss]

There are another 2 CD-ROMs for sale by 'staffellied' on e-Bay UK. His address used to be Buckinghamshire but he has now moved to Rushden, Northants

[Andy Mitchell]

Guys,

Guess who's registered on my board with an address as Rushden, Northamptonshire, England.........