its just wrong to practically clone some1 elses work and call it as your own .
its like say a ford enginner / designer bases a new ford car on a porsche 911 and makes it look preaty much identical and sticks the ford badge on it. he would probably get sewed
. i have a mate that runs a bodykit making company here in australia . he wanted to make a body kit based on a very popluar kit called the "droid 2" for a mitsubishi lancer. he preaty much cloned and made some small changes to it and the originol creaters of the droid 2 bodykit told him that if he doesnt make more changes to his kit they would sew him.
its preaty much the same situation on these forums sometimes. people cloning other peoples work and calling it as their own.
i sometimes try to clone smos models to get a better understanding of how he makes his models so good but before i do it ask him on msn if i can do it and never release them or show them to any. the only time i have shown my clones to any1 was when i showed a progress to smo himself because i needed crits.