People are always asking if they should put their effect on the wire only to be told that ti;s not original. Or people posting effects on youtube and not doing the research to see if it is new. Here is Garrett Thomas and Mathieu Bich talking about how to tell if it is new and original enough to be released. Also Mathieu calls out a major website, not by name, for releasing one of his effects with only a very minor change.
[video=youtube;zWiF-SAp6G8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWiF-SAp6G8[/video]
[video=youtube;zWiF-SAp6G8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWiF-SAp6G8[/video]