VIII. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
Stealing is the unauthorized and willful taking of what rightly belongs to another.
God is Creator and Lord of this world, and all things come from him. Therefore, I must never take what God has not entrusted to me.
I can steal or defraud others of wages, identity, credit, or intellectual property; cheat in school or on my taxes; or fail to pay my debts. I must repay and, to the best of my ability, restore what I have stolen.
God desires that I be content, responsible, and generous with what he has given me. Everything I own I hold in trust as God’s steward, to cultivate and use for his glory and my neighbor’s good.
As I am able, I should earn my own living, care for my dependents, and give to the poor. I should use all my possessions to the glory of God and the good of creation.
Jozef Gherman is, according to CTFC judgment, a thief.
SSRWives is not the first act of theft Jozef Gherman committed.
In 2021, Jozef Gherman, through J Squared, misled investors and was ordered to pay $397,000.
The issue was so serious that Jozef was banned for 10 years from CTFC-regulated activity.
Fraud activity involving Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum was alleged, and the complaint and settlement were made in the same day. (see page 15 of linked document)
Jozef German, according to the witness of four business collaborators, is a thief.
Jozef Gherman does not possess technical skills. He does not possess the ability to create art, write code, or develop software or intellectual property.
He does possess a limited capability to finance such pursuits, and did so apparently in exchange for intellectual property rights.
However:
Jozef did not originate the SSRWives intellectual property.
Jozef did not develop the SSRWives intellectual property.
Jozef did not construct assets for the SSRWives intellectual property.
Right of ownership on paper in this case must still be weighed against the right of ownership purchased by right of work.
Concrete work on the SSRWives IP spanned 2 years prior to the transfer of intellectual property rights, and still continued after without creative or technical input from Jozef Gherman, to the best of public knowledge.
Despite all of this, Jozef insists that the basis of legal assignment alone supersedes the basis of right of prior sweat equity.
IX. THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
False witness to willfully communicate a falsehood about my neighbor, either in legal or in other matters, in order to misrepresent them.
It defames and wounds my neighbor, erodes my love of truth, disobeys my Lord Jesus, and aligns me with Satan, the father of lies.
False witness is any willful misrepresentation of the truth in legal, civic, or business affairs bears false witness, rebels against God’s will, and subverts God’s justice.
This commandment forbids all lying, slander, or gossip; all manipulative, deceitful, or insulting speech; and testifying falsely about myself for personal gain.
Few advancements have been made on the SSRWives IP case, but Jozef has continued to attempt an advance of the assertion that it is his name and his skill that developed the game when the only thing AT BEST he contributed was funding.
Jozef, in an attempt to credit his name, circumvented a litigation hold on the game’s demo. (A litigation hold that only happened because of his own vindictive behavior.)
He created a duplicate game listing and replaced the opening Mature Content Warning with an opening credit hailing himself as the original visionary of the game. No other changes are noted on the game at this time.
The original game listing was only locked up because of vindictive behavior on the part of Jozef.
The new release of the game was made available “for the community”, but it is absolutely clear to an outsider watching the parties involved that it is an attempt to propagate himself as the hero of the case and to vilify Protag and the development team.
He says he wants the demo to be available “for the community”, but he was the one who locked the original demo to begin with.
You are not a hero for putting out a fire if you started it to begin with.
After the rerelease of the demo, Jozef opened a merch store on the SSRWives website.
Jozef’s opening of the store is a misrepresentation of the circumstances. The game is not back in development. The case has not been settled.
The opening of the store also reflects additional violation of VIII (Stealing).
Demo discs are not right to price at $20. Hoodies are commonly not right to price at $60. One-color t-shirts are not right to price at $35.
Print professionals in the US can print top-end one-color shirts costing, at most, $17.50 to print. (That’s the cost to print just one shirt, short runs are commonly expensive.) That same top end shirt will print as low as $10.50 at the same shop at 250+ units.
Complex shirts may require significant investment, but rarely do they require so much that you must sell them for $35.
The shop is both stealing and false witness.
In addition to misrepresenting his contributions to SSRWives and profiteering from an IP that is not legally free to develop at this time, Jozef continues to publish libelous statements about his former colleagues, insisting that a coordinated harassment campaign has been organized by them.
I promise you, Jozef. I’m not doing this because Protag or Simon want me to. I’m doing this because I love truth and justice, and hate watching the powerful exploit the weak when I can do something about it.
You are the thief. You are the liar. If Christ is your King, you will repent. He in his divine judgment silenced you on Easter while His people gathered to worship. Repent before the judgment comes, terrible tortures of your soul in this life, or the final judgment after which there is no return.
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