[The359]

There's a difference between taking public information (the cars in the game) and making his own list and taking someone else's list and copying it word for word, color for color, symbol for symbol.

One is legal. The other is not. It's that simple.

If he had made his own list from scratch, I would have no problem, plenty of other websites have done that and the information within the list is public information. But since he decided to just highlight, hit Copy, and then hit Paste, well then I'm entitled to be a bit peeved because the list is more then just a bunch of cars, it's also a chart of cars that are confirmed in the game, all the coding that into it, etc. All of which I did myself.

The original list that I built from scratch is only supposed to be located in two places where I personally can maintain and update it.

The GTX Forums: http://www.granturismox.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73
The GTPlanet Forums: http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=43081

Please note at the top it even says in nice big letters "Please don't copy this without asking me first"

And yes I do go searching for people who stole my list, because most of the time they either a) Try to pass it off as a real Sony/Polyphony list or b) Try to pass it off as something they themselves made without any credit to me.

Also that old list was actually created by a group of Brazilian GT fans who wanted a list of cars they WISHED were in the game. Due to a translation snafu, people thought it was an official list and passed it off as such. So everything on that 779 car list should be pretty much ignored.