Illegal rebrand

[vatterspun]

Just making you aware I came across what appears to be Captura being sold as a trialware program on the Microsoft Store by some clown named "WonderfulLife"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/screen-recorder-pro-display-window-region/9nkn36vnk55z?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/Screen-Recorder-Pro.shtml (edit: this one has been fixed)

I've reported the issue to Microsoft's Store and Softpedia. I see these appear from time to time (ShareX had one for a while) but they appear and disappear pretty quick. Still, I'm disappointed Microsoft didn't run a simple image search for just duplicate images across two sites they own.

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EDIT: To be clear, because it's an MIT license, this is illegal for copyright reasons (you can copyright naming, graphics, and to some extent an interface) and because the license requires attribution. Also, it's crap to sell freely available software.

[MathewSachin]

I recognized from his email on Microsoft store that this person had sent me an email before.

Jack Fan
uwpworker@gmail.com

He wanted me to take down the source code for Captura.
He would then sell and make money from it. 😮 
In return he would give me $100 a month. (pretty cheap 😏)

Like he thinks I'm an idiot 😆.
Captura is, was and will always be completely free and open-source.
I didn't really bother replying to him.

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Thank you @vatterspun for letting me know.
I've also reported it on Microsoft Store.
I hope this won't last for long.
Anyways, I don't think he would be able to carry the project forward.

[vatterspun]

Captura is, was and will always be completely free and open-source.

That's very encouraging. Numerous projects (Fastcopy and Paint.NET come to mind) have seen someone dupe their code and try to sell it and decide being open isn't worth the trouble. I agree that this is a temporary issue and I'm glad to hear you're sticking with an open license.

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EDIT: Softpedia has moved quickly and redirected the fake program to the Captura entry. Good news.

[MathewSachin]

To anyone viewing this issue, please report the app on Microsoft store so it will be removed sooner. Thank you for your support.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/screen-recorder-pro-display-window-region/9nkn36vnk55z?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

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Edit: Due to not receiving a response after a week, I tweeted about this to MicrosoftStore
https://twitter.com/MathewSachin7/status/1128007886976610311

[MathewSachin]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/screen-recorder-plus-for-windows-10/9pj1c0rfbzn3?activetab=pivot:overviewtab#

This one seems to be ScreenToGif sold by the same person.
I've reported this one too.

@NickeManarin you might want to report it too.

[NickeManarin]

@MathewSachin Thanks, I just reported it now (for some reason, the report tool is kind of broken, even with Firefox).
That's the fourth (I believe so) copycat app being sold at MS Store that I'm aware of.

[vatterspun]

That's the fourth (I believe so) copycat app being sold at MS Store that I'm aware of.

Yikes, that's ... some vetting process they have in place.

In any case, I'm very fond of both ScreenToGif and Captura so I'll definitely keep my eyes open for other copycats.

[MathewSachin]

Another one: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/p/screen-recorder-pro-for-win10/9n27gq6mls5s?cid=msft_web_chart&&activetab=pivot:overviewtab|pivot:reviewstab

[qayyumabro]

Just reported on MS store:
"This is the opensource project which this user offering here without original author consent. https://github.com/MathewSachin/Captura

This was reported way back in May 2019 and its still active on MS Store is beyond me. #405

Please remove this."

[vatterspun]

Just reported this on MS Store

Great work. Please if you have any kind of Twitter account to call out @microsoft for this. I suspect that is a separate unit so painting them with an anti-open source, anti-Github (also Microsoft-owned) brush is likely to see more action.

[nlebellier]

still true in 08/04/2020

[vatterspun]

Related: #521