A Reddit user under the nickname WellKden published a post in which he presented a custom USP-S skin resembling an electric drill, which caused delight and admiration among fans, but he was also accused of plagiarism.
WellKden's post quickly gained popularity, gathering a lot of “upvotes” and comments praising the creativity and craftsmanship of the skin. But there was also another user with the nickname Quzga, who almost a year ago also published a similar style skin for USP-S and MP5-SD.
Here is what Quzga wrote under the post, accusing the author of plagiarism:
It's weird that you're doing this after my mp5 + usp was so popular, and even posting it on the same sabreddit. I'm not implying it's stealing, but I find it odd that your description and many aspects are similar to mine.Quzga
To which the author of the post replied
What other subreddit would I post it in? I really like your skin, but I only found out about it halfway through making my own, which you can see in the WIP section of the CS Tools Discord for my skin. You can see that I've only been making skins for about 2 months, so I haven't been part of the skin community for a long time and didn't know about your skin until recently. After all, I do it for fun and it would be unfair to say that the drill/power tool idea is completely “owned” by you. The only thing our skins have in common is that they are both drills, I personally think it's great to see how different people approach a similar concept.WellKden
One user responding to these posts said that it's not an original concept, just the same variation of the drill skin and both are well done. What do you think, should we accuse the author of plagiarism?
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