You’re violating the license under which the content is provided which is piracy regardless of if the file is available for download.
People doing this is why we lost access to an entire model library that was previously available to be used with VATSIM, because the model authors had not given permission for their work to be used in MSFS.
The incident with the model library was caused by FSLTL. They wanted to distribute the content of other people without permission as part of their own mod. I’m not doing that so you can’t compare that.
The second point is that you can’t enforce the license from IVAO. What are you going to tell the lawyer? There is no damage to the brand IVAO so on what basis do you want to do that? The lawyer will laugh at you.
The Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums are not a place for discussing illegal activity.
If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
Be indefinitely banned from the forums
We’re not pointing out anyone or any post in particular at this time, however this topic is veering way off-course. Please kindly right the ship and return to the conversation about the Liveries and their impact on current Performance. Thank you.
No they did not. They made it quite clear that they intended to ask permission for using models and liveries and went to great lengths to get that permission. In the end trust broke down, some content creators simply could not be bothered to respond and others didn’t like seeing their work used in FSLTL promotional videos so permissions were withdrawn. At that stage FSLTL made the position clear and partnerships were cancelled. They are now working quietly to create new content working with people who want to be part of the project.