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+**Are you the copyright holder or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf? If you are submitting this notice on behalf of a company, please be sure to use an email address on the company's domain. If you use a personal email address for a notice submitted on behalf of a company, we may not be able to process it.**  
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+Yes, I am authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.  
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+**Are you submitting a revised DMCA notice after GitHub Trust & Safety requested you make changes to your original notice?**  
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+No  
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+**Does your claim involve content on GitHub or npm.js?**  
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+GitHub  
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+**Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.**  
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+[private], legal representative of Mesh VR, LLC., the copyright owner. Mesh VR, LLC, is the [private] and copyright holder of Virt-a-Mate software.  
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+**Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed.**  
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+Mesh VR, LLC, is the creator of the Virt-a-Mate software program. Virt-a-Mate is a complete standalone game software program built using Unity, c# code, and many assets (textures, 3d models, etc.). All of those assets are copyrighted materials.  
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+The repository being reported is a complete reverse engineered version of our software. The owner of the infringing repository used asset and code ripping tools to get everything from our binary files and then published all of the reverse engineered code and also game assets into their github repository. They even describe that is what they have done in their repository README.  
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+A quote from that README:  
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+"Virt-a-Mate never opened its source code and has been stuck on Unity 2018.1.9f2 forever, while the developers just keep taking money and releasing tiny fixes for years.  
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+VAMOpen is an attempt to bring Virt-a-Mate back to life.  
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+It's reverse engineering, reassembled back into a Unity project, with shaders recovered from the bytecode that ships in the release build. I don't redistribute the game itself. The repository only contains the recovered code and the pipeline, and you point it at your own installation."  
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+**If the original work referenced above is available online, please provide a URL.**  
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+Our Virt-a-Mate software is available privately only to paying [private] backers here:  
+[private]
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+Our original copyrighted source code and assets can be found on Github in our private repositories:  
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+[private]  
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+[private]  
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+If you are able to see the internals of our repositories listed above, you can easily see that the infringing repository contains reverse engineered versions of our game code (c#) and assets.  
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+**We ask that a DMCA takedown notice list every specific file in the repository that is infringing, unless the entire contents of the repository are infringing on your copyright. Please clearly state that the entire repository is infringing, OR provide the specific files within the repository you would like removed.**  
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+**Based on the above, I confirm that:**  
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+The entire repository is infringing  
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+**Identify the full repository URL that is infringing:**  
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+https://github.com/badass234/vam-open  
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+**Do you claim to have any technological measures in place to control access to your copyrighted content? Please see our <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice#complaints-about-anti-circumvention-technology">Complaints about Anti-Circumvention Technology</a> if you are unsure.**  
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+No  
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+**If you are reporting an allegedly infringing fork, please note that each fork is a distinct repository and <i>must be identified separately</i>. Please read more about <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy#b-what-about-forks-or-whats-a-fork">forks.</a> As forks may often contain different material than in the parent repository, if you believe any of the repositories or files in the forks are infringing, please list each fork URL below:**  
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+**Is the work licensed under an open source license?**  
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+No  
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+**What would be the best solution for the alleged infringement?**  
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+Reported content must be removed  
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+**Do you have the alleged infringer’s contact information? If so, please provide it.**  
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+**I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.**  
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+**I have taken <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/22">fair use</a> into consideration.**  
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+**I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.**  
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+**I have read and understand GitHub's <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice/">Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice</a>.**  
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+**So that we can get back to you, please provide either your telephone number or physical address.**  
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+[private]  
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+**Please type your full name for your signature.**  
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+[private]