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MrDoth
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Dark Sword is being stolen?

Posted by MrDoth - March 8th, 2023


Hello! Today I was curious to look for the name of my game on the internet and I have seen that several pages have put Dark Sword on their sites with ads, so they are making some money with it. I do not know how to react or if this is normal hahaha, those who know about it, what should I do? Does the game protection option work in newgrounds?


I have the doubt because my intention is to polish the game enough to be able to put it for sale later, I do not know if allowing it to be distributed in this way makes it more visible or if I should look for a way to report these sites.


What do you think?


it is worth mentioning that the game has the option to allow embeding disabled.


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I think they should have at least asked you if it's okay. Doing this without your approval is absolutely wrong. Maybe contacting them about this is a good start

Unfortunately none of those pages has a way to send a report or anything :s however I've been thinking about it and I think that in the end it's better, because more people know the game, that if, in the next update I'll add a disclaimer where players are redirected to newgrounds hahaha

Back in the Flash days, it was easier to site-lock games to avoid them getting stolen. It's been harder with HTML5 games and there are lots of sites out there that just leach everything. You could try sending the site a takedown request if you can find the option on their site.

How sad, they don't have any method to ask to remove the game, but it seems that the fact that the game asks to log in on newgrounds makes it crash on those pages LOL