NEWS: WE CAN HAZ LEGAL THREATS?
Jelenedra:
Sounds like you'll have to get your links to EA Store stuff through #grah. Or people need to start sharing links in a way that searches cannot detect it. Y'know. Lots of spaces or missing the .com or something.
Mootilda:
Doesn't the whole issue with Napster set a precedence in the U.S. that links to copywritten material are illegal?
seelindarun:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2008 December 15, 19:51:11
Sounds like you'll have to get your links to EA Store stuff through #grah. Or people need to start sharing links in a way that searches cannot detect it. Y'know. Lots of spaces or missing the .com or something.
There are still some working links in there. Vineeta wasn't very thorough. ;) It's impossible to tell which links were listed or why, so I'm not sure what measures would be useful, if any.
Quote from: Mootilda on 2008 December 15, 19:59:27
Doesn't the whole issue with Napster set a precedence in the U.S. that links to copywritten material are illegal?
It's illegal if you, Mootilda, were to put up a link to store stuff for anyone to take, and of course, it would be illegal for me to take it from you. It would also be illegal if Pes invited a bunch of people to put up links to content he would host.
However, if you were to put up a link to stuff and ask me to fix it, that would not be illegal. If I put up a link to the stuff I fixed for you to take back, that's also not illegal. If we do all this on JMP's forum, but host the files somewhere else, there's nothing illegal about it.
jolrei:
And in any case, all this illegality may exist in USerica, but the internets are not just USerican anymore. What links a Malaysian site has on it, may turn out not to be in this lolyer's area of expertise.
Mootilda:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2008 December 15, 20:08:51
However, if you were to put up a link to stuff and ask me to fix it, that would not be illegal. If I put up a link to the stuff I fixed for you to take back, that's also not illegal. If we do all this on JMP's forum, but host the files somewhere else, there's nothing illegal about it.
That's good to hear. I have a theory that EA is trying to set a precedent (TS3?) for charging outrageous fees online for buggy and incomplete objects with little information about what you are purchasing, no after-purchase support for buggy and incomplete objects, and no ability to return objects which have problems. Perhaps they intend to increase their "partnership" with TSR, but don't want to have to support those objects? It would be horrible if we weren't able to fix those objects ourselves and share the fixes.
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