Actually he did break copyright laws. The minute he uploaded products that in the read me stated that he himself had created 100% off all of the contents without the aid of any outside resources and claimed that he 100% owned the material included in his products, which he did not, he even admited to "inadvertantly" including files that he should not have, now if it had been a one time thing I would be willing to overlook that but it wasnt a 1 time thing it was each and every one of his products that he created that contained nothing 100 % original to him at all. But besides that I bought the original characters believing that he had created all of it, had lovingly and painstakingly hand drawn each tattoo (which he claimed over and over again) only to find that if I do a search for free flash on google I can overlay those same tattoos on any texture I please
Now like Calico I was ready to give the benefit of the doubt and anxiously awaited his updates, which I have since recieved and I have to say.. in my humble opinion these characters no longer even resemble the ones I purchased originally (even though his thumbs on his page show the same older characters) EVERY piece of the textures.. everything of them has been replaced, even some of the morphs are different which leaves me with characters that I would not have bought as thier quality is no where near what I had originally purchased, and now that I knw that I can simply apply the tattoo flash myself (getting the proper permissions from the respective flash artists of course) to any of my already owned characters I can only say that I was highly dissapointed in the updates and in Robert himself, if for no other reason than he has proved twice (once when he sold me material that he did not create or own the rights to use and once when he sent me the updates which turned out to be nothing like the originals in content or quality) that he is not worth my giving him my trust or respect.
That being said I am not attempting, nor will not attempt to persuade anyone to change thier opinions of him as if people want to throw good money after bad at him that is thier choice, however with the amount of other artist out there that actually have talent I cant see where I personally will ever give him the time of day in the future.. let alone any of my money.