HZ-Niloom (and in the same time roza-jewelry) was seller of stolen models. If you are looking for cheap but good looking models and copies of branded items you can use CGT's search in printable category. You can check the box "sort by top selling " and probably with this kind of search result sorting you'll get exactly the same models you wanted from HZ-Niloom with the same (or with the very comparable) price.
Or you can try to find this user somewhere on another 3d-marketplace or using search on 3d-searching sites like yeggi.com. Usually sellers are registered on few marketplaces with the same nickname and are uploading the same content to all of those sites.
But buying stolen models from "designers" (that are not designers but thieves) you support thievery, dumping and killing the job of fair designers.
Designer dissapeared HZ-NilooM
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@john-monne (I'm making a new comment here instead of replying above, because I will not get notifications otherwise (it's a forum bug))
You are looking at this only from your personal interest perspective and I can understand that, however I'm sure that if you try to look deeper into this you will understand that both customers and designers have interest to eliminate thieves.
I'll try to explain the whole picture:
1. You are presuming that we are selling hundreds of copies of a model that we create (actually some amateur designers presume that too), but that is extremely far from the true.
My average stats for the last 9 years, roughly show that only around 5% of the models get more than 10 sells (total - that makes ~1 sale per year - for only 5% of the models). Some models never get a single sale.
2. Models do not have eternal life once created - TurboSquid released an analysis for their entire database some years ago and estimated that a 3D model lifetime is around 3 years on average - reasons: the requirements of the industry change, software versions change, etc.etc. I'm sure that gets shorter now.
3. The models price that you buy from these thieves now is that low, just because they do not spend any time in designing and modeling - they just download them from a pirate site and upload - that is all that they do.
They also do not pay for software licenses needed to create those models and that is why they can afford to sell them at that price.
Those who actually spend time to design and model can not compete with this pricing, they will be losing money if they do.
Now I'm sure that you don't care and don't want to know that, you just want to buy a model that you like and cheap if possible, but if this continues in the end there will be only thieves left and noone to create them.
Therefore thieves will also don't have from who to steal except from one another (we are now partly in this stage) and there will be no new models for you to buy.
Those terms and conditions, copyrights and laws that may seem weird and obscure to you are created to prevent this, not to make designers rich.
Unfortunately, designers in the 3D World are not celebrities driving Lamborghini..
Just like in the real world it takes a lot of time, education, talent and a lot of hard work to create something that people will want to buy.
And it is also a crime. Buying, distributing or being in possession of stolen material knowing that it is stolen is a crime, typified in the Lithuanian penal code with up to 4 years in prison. This can be applied not only to the buyers (of counterfeits in this case), but also to the sellers and to the markets (legal entities), who host this material and profit from it, if they protect the offenders and do not inform the authorities and to the rightful owner, as is his obligation. In cases of repeated cheats, and when there has been a previous formal claim, by the owner of the rights infringed or stolen, ignorance cannot be alleged and the crime is sufficiently proven.
This is the thread:
https://www.cgtrader.com/forum/selling-buying-3d-models/what-to-do-with-frauders
You can write to
skapricorn
He is the expert there and may point you to the original models.
Guys thank you all for your input. Admitted I am no pro in all these websites and happenings on them. All I know is that at the moment i need a specific kind of pendant style and this vendor was the only one that offered it. I just did a 2 hour search through yeggi and again on CGTrader but it has come up empty. I have to say as well that in my search last week where i found his models, I didnt come across his models somewhere else. Who determines that they do not belong to this vendor? And why is this person not offering these pendants / jewelry himself? Who then owns all these designs for which he was removed? I dont care if i have to buy them on CGTrader or directly from the people who made them. I just want to buy them.
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