NEWS: WE CAN HAZ LEGAL THREATS?
HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: BrokenRobot on 2008 December 14, 21:32:08
2. "...your website www.moreawesomethanyou.com ('the Site')..." WTF? Do people refer to MATY as "the Site" now?
3. It's signed "Very truly yours". How inappropriately personal of them.
2. Standard thing in legal documents "blah balah long ass description of things that have to be referenced more than once in a letter" ('xyzzy'). Now they can just say xyzzy and everyone who reads it knows what they are referring to.
3. Also common closing by lawyers. There's nothing personal or impersonal about it, it's just standard language.
rohina:
So, how much did this letter cost EA, and are they going to send one every time a new link is put up?
I ask because evil people might be tempted to put up a link saying: Here's some great EA store stuff, and then link to mediafryer with an "image" file that said something like "these are not the droids you are looking for". Falor, no doubt would tell me that that was illegal, since he maintains that as a US citizen it is illegal to smoke pot in Amsterdam.
eevilcat:
I think this probably says more about what we can expect when Sims 3 comes out and that the EA legal department are just testing the water in preparation. Most people who receive a letter like that will panic and remove any and all 'questionable' links.
cwykes:
Like Maygus, I understand them to mean that not deleting links to those downloads is 'allowing' and 'encouraging' copyright violation. As you're not posting in the thread egging people on, that's a bit of a reach for me, but I'm not a lawyer. Isn't posting about whatever you want a freedom of speech thing anyway?
Do they really believe that dealing with those particular downloads is going to fix anything? Delete one and another 5 will pop up elsewhere. The stupid thing is that the Sims2 community is almost certainly the least geeky and most law abiding game community in existence! Going after us with Securom and antagonistic legal stuff like this just sets more people on the road they want us to avoid! I'd never even downloaded a hack until I hit headmaster bug & I didn't know what nocd cracks were until EA went over to Securom.
I'm another non-US customer who can't buy this stuff anyway. Not that I actually want more of their junk - there's better stuff on fansites. But if I did buy any, I'd go straight out and look for fixed versions on the internet!
Marhis:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 December 14, 13:22:14
so there is literally nothing I can even do!
Actually, there is something else you can do: reply to them with the letter Lorelei wrote above:
Quote from: Lorelei on 2008 December 14, 19:51:19
Dear EAxian LAWLyer:
U R DOIN IT WRONG.
STFU & GTFO, Attorney at LOL..
Also, HA ha!
Love & glomps,
MATY, the world's leading website for hax and modz that fix the game-borking retardery created by the world's leading interactive entertainment software company"
xoxo
P.S. Have you heard of TSR, which SELLS the intellectual property of EA? I thought not.
Pretty please?
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