NEWS: WE CAN HAZ LEGAL THREATS?
Maygus:
I dealt with intellectual property issues in my past life as a software development manager, and based on my own experience, here's an interpretation of that letter: Apparently, EA's legal department is going after mediafire.com So somebody directed an intern to do google searches for sites with links to mediafire and this site (MATY) came up as well as a zillion other Sims 2 forums and fansites. Then MATY along with who-knows-how-many other Sims 2 websites were sent a threatening form letter. (It doesn't appear that the letter was written specifically for MATY.)
I did a google search and it turned up a number of mediafire links on MATY web pages. Here's an example:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=13036.0 (edit: better example)
It appears that EA is trying to pressure you to remove all of the links to mediafire which appear on this site.
About a week ago, EA issued an earnings and sales warning for the 4th quarter. So it may be that they're trying to shore up Q4 sales by putting the squelch on pirated content.
rohina:
That letter doesn't even has grammar, quite apart from its lulz in the hyperbolic description of EA. "offers...users to upload"? What do that even mean? And it accuses you of letting people look at images? It sounds like the lolyer isn't entirely clear about what this stuff you allegedly have IS.
Alex:
The grammar is atrocious. The flip-flopping between "images" and "files" is just baffling, and they certainly aren't "the world's leading interactive entertainment software company". Plus, they're talking about "The SIMS". The Sims™ is a completely unrelated game. ::)
Is this going to be like the time TSR threatened to sue the Malaysians?
SaraMK:
I kind of feel bad for whomever got stuck with the task of writing that letter. Clearly the poor retard hasn't been on the job long.
rohina:
It kind of surprises me that EA, "the world's leading interactive entertainment software company" doesn't have lolyers on retainer who are a bit more savvy about the internets.
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