You'd better not use these assets in a final product. I hope its all true and that Art Coding manage to sort their stuff out, otherwise they are doing the long con and thats even worse So if they have the account details for Sketchfab then those assets need to be removed from there also to show that they are removing the illegal assets themselves. The only accounts they said the students hacked were sketchfab but that CDN sketchfab account still has assets from Astellia game listed there.

You cannot give someone else access to your publisher account to upload assets. Regardless, they first said that they gave students access to upload directly to the asset store, and they were not checking due to not having capacity to check, so that is dodgy. So basically ArtCoding admitted that the content was illegal, however was the fault of 2 individuals who hacked sketchfab accounts. However unless they manually went and removed all the content that these 'students' uploaded and informed all their customers that they would receive full refunds for those assets, they needed to be taken down. No idea if they have provided that info yet, but Art Coding did say they expelled the students. If they were students then ArtCoding should have their real identification info (if they used their real IDs), and as its obvious that they are also the same people behind the fake 3DVoxel publisher page, which has the more serious crime of Identity Theft and not just copyright, I told ArtCoding to provide that information to Unity and the authorities.

I was contacted by ArtCoding to say that it was 2 students that hacked accounts and uploaded the stolen assets. I hope honest publishers help me find more stolen content because these rippers' actions are disrupting the store's economy and destroying many new games. Wyvern directly from Wow, nothing changed at all: I'm sure everyone who played wow knows Deathwing, here's just an edited version(but wings, armor, head, and most parts exactly the same as in Wow) This publisher sells content from the Astellia game:Īnd the same guys selling models from World of Warcraft, have one sketchfab page. So the main problem here is that game developers cannot use them in projects, they will immediately be banned from Steam or another platform in the DMCA report. As far as I know, Unity cannot remove stolen content on its own, since the copyright holder has to make a report, but large corporations don't care about this until you release the game with their models. I see a lot of stolen models from different games.

Rip models from unity games