NEWS: WE CAN HAZ LEGAL THREATS?
Zilla:
Meh! Sorry Pescado.
They have alot of frickin' nerve seeing how EA is being sued for copyright infringment. It's old news, but still... http://www.nothingbutsoftware.com/blog/tag/ea-lawsuit/
SiuPang:
I still believe the files we linked to here are different to those offered by the Store! Theirs have glitches but ours haven't. Maybe just like someone mentioned early, we just add in the declaimer that thoes links are only for people who have owned the properties already and are willing to fix those stupid glitches that EAxis brought to them. If under that circumstance those EAxis jackasses still bother us, then does that mean Sim players can no longer make any custom contents based on stuff made by EAxis? Does that mean even a recolor of their* objects is illegal? WTF... Sims 3 gotta suck if that's the case! To be frank, I have no interest in Sims 3 at all, thanks to those uglier Sims in Sims 3, EAxis's intervention of my collecting of exclusive stuff and also those "only-3-installations" or SecuRom! BTW, anyone thinks sims in Sims 3 are way uglier than Sims in Sims 2? >:(
Now I am wondering what will happen when Store come out with new contents next month. They will definitely be milking the Store even after Sims 3 has been released. I really hate that when I fail to find the exclusives I want. I have failed to find the Elle Woods NPC for Sims 1 Superstar. Now they are telling me I will not have those Store exclusives for Sims 2 (I am outside US or Canada). Once, I really enjoyed completing stuff for Sims provided that I would find them in the end. If now it is for sure no matter how hard I have been trying, I won't find what I am lookind for, I would rather not play Sims anymore. Since 2000, I have been paying for every genuie copy of Sims 1 and Sims 2 franchises. Alright, EAxis, you are losing me as your customers for Sims 3,4,5..., and I believe there are many like me who will be making such a judicious decision too (and indeed I have also given up to play many other EA games like Need For Speed, Medal of Honor... because of SecuRom) :-\
SiuPang:
My last reply is just there to tell Electric Arts Inc. ("EA") how I feel personally and now I want to tell Vineeta Gajwani the followings and I believe as you mentioned you will be monitoring this *site* (indeed, this is a forum and I am not sure what the law in US states but I strongly believe a website and an online forum are different, please refer to the Law and check the difference!) and so I guess you are reading this thread too.
1. People here only *linked* to those files in Schedule 1. Those files were uploaded to a hosting website or server owned by MediaFire but not More Awesome Than You.
2. Moderators or Owners of this online forum did or do not encourage any infringement upon any copyrights owned by Electric Arts Inc., no matter it is about The SIMS or not.
3. Moderators here can delete posts suspicious of infringing upon intellectual properties but they cannot stop people from saying they may have discovered those supicious contents on the web and posted a link to them.
4. When EA produced the game and in many of the commericals by EA about The SIMS, they have stated clearly the ability of customization of any content of the game is a feature of the product. EA also further stated clearly in their EA TOOLS END USER LICENSE that end user can create custom contents using any content from the game or any associated The SIMS intellectual propety, including The SIMS 2 Store. Members of this forum have posted customized contents, including fixes of the bugs that EA has included in their The SIMS content, of The SIMS but not for commericial purpose shall never be considered to be infringing on EA's intellectual property rights.
I am not a moderator or the owner here in More Awesome Than You and I am not writing on behave of any of them. But you better get to know more about EA's policy about The SIMS in the past, the player community of The SIMS and the web before issuing that letter to More Awesome Than You.
When EA stated the EA TOOLS END USER LICENSE, they are indeed signing a contract about what to offer to The SIM players when these players come to make the offer of buying the game. When EA suddenly changed the EA TOOLS END USER LICENSE, it is indeed EA themselves breaking the law. And the all The SIM players reserve the rights to claim their damages through any legal procedure.
Tingeling:
Plz to not double-post and to correct the use of grammar. Kthxbai.
Mootilda:
Quote from: SiuPang on 2008 December 20, 05:56:51
Now they are telling me I will not have those Store exclusives for Sims 2 (I am outside US or Canada). Once, I really enjoyed completing stuff for Sims provided that I would find them in the end.
Remember that the Sims Store is a beta, which means that EA is still testing it. Although the Store can only be used in the US and Canada at the moment, I expect EA to expand availability to the rest of the world if the beta proves successful (read: profitable). If the Store isn't profitable in the US and Canada, then EA will probably drop the whole idea.
The letter from EA to MATY is clearly an attempt to increase the profitability of the Store, by ensuring that people cannot obtain these objects except by paying EA. If EA cannot force people in the US and Canada, with relatively strong copywrite enforcement, to buy these objects from the Store, then they are unlikely to give access to other countries which may have less stringent copywrite enforcement.
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