Though call here.
Even if some people are telling the truth, some might as well try their
luck, remove the plugins and try to lie their way out of it.
Personally I wouldn't mind having these servers banned either way,
whether or not they removed these plugins now. Can hardly tell me no one
ever thought of this being, well, somewhat questionable (Guys, this was
obviously a bad thing to do). TF2 was a good example for that, and
hello, you were giving access to goods people would otherwise have to
pay for, money that would go to valve, and actually to some degree back
to the community - the ones who created the skins etc..
Few quotes from the steam eula:
"[...]You agree not to:
commercially exploit the Software;
distribute, lease, license, sell, rent, convert into convertible
currency, or otherwise transfer or assign the Software, or any copies of
the Software, including but not limited to Virtual Goods or Virtual
Currency (defined below) without the express prior written consent of
Licensor or as expressly set forth in this Agreement;[...]"
"[...]ACCESS TO SPECIAL FEATURES AND/OR SERVICES, INCLUDING DIGITAL
COPIES: Software download, redemption of a unique serial code,
registration of the Software, membership in a third-party service and/or
membership in a Licensor service (including acceptance of related terms
and policies) may be required to activate the Software, access digital
copies of the Software, or access certain un-lockable, downloadable,
online, or other special content, services, and/or functions
(collectively, "Special Features"). Access to Special Features is
limited to a single User Account (as defined below) per serial code and
access to Special Features cannot be transferred, sold, leased,
licensed, rented, converted into convertible virtual currency, or
re-registered by another user unless otherwise expressly specified. The
provisions of this paragraph supersede any other term in this
Agreement.[...]"
"[...]VIRTUAL CURRENCY & VIRTUAL GOODS : The Software may enable users
to (i) use fictional virtual currency as a medium of exchange
exclusively within the Software ("Virtual Currency" or "VC") and (ii)
gain access to (and certain limited rights to use) virtual goods within
the Software ("Virtual Goods" or "VG"). Regardless of the terminology
used, VC and VG represent a limited license right governed by this
Agreement. Subject to the terms of and compliance with this Agreement,
Licensor hereby grants you the nonexclusive, non-transferable,
non-sublicensable, limited right and license to use VC and VG obtained
by you for your personal non-commercial gameplay exclusively within the
Software. Except as otherwise prohibited by applicable law, VC and VG
obtained by you are licensed to you, and you hereby acknowledge that no
title or ownership in or to VC and VG is being transferred or assigned
hereunder. This Agreement should not be construed as a sale of any
rights in VC and VG.[...]"
Apparently what most server ops thought: "They these items cost stuff,
they have value! I can use a plugin to give this stuff to everyone, but
only as long as they are on my server! That's even better! I could even
make my own money by selling the rights to use this on my server! And I
created none of these items! How great! Absolutely not against the EULA
and won't screw over Valve or the content creators!"
On 18.07.2015 13:25, Andreas Willinger wrote:
Same..
*Von:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *Im Auftrag von
*Geo B.
*Gesendet:* Samstag, 18. Juli 2015 13:19
*An:* [email protected]
*Betreff:* Re: [Csgo_servers] Request to Server Operators
Never had knife or ws tag on any of my servers .... SO i should not be
affected ... .but i am ...
2015-07-18 13:16 GMT+02:00 Ejziponken - <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Well clearly Valve don't have a system checking it either, they just
banned servers with "knife" in the tags.....
So atm you might just want to remove tags like that.
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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:12:51 +0200
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Csgo_servers] Request to Server Operators
We're of course taking action to inform our clients about this and
have been actively removing these plugins from servers running with
us, but I think you don't fully appreciate how much work this is when
you're talking thousands of servers and users can upload plugins freely.
2015-07-18 13:00 GMT+02:00 Ejziponken - <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Well now maybe the server hosters needs to take some action to make
sure their clients are following Valves rules..
I mean, isn't it partially their responsibility to make sure their
clients not breaking rules?
But its a bit difficult for them to check hundreds of servers if they
running plugins that break the rules.
But informing clients via mail is very much possible.
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:50:57 +0300
> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Csgo_servers] Request to Server Operators
>
> I'm guessing it's not available through Valve server search of
community
> servers and i doubt any drops can occur on the server either. It can
> still be found via server browser i think.
>
> -ics
>
> MiShU # gameserver-syndicate.de <http://gameserver-syndicate.de>
kirjoitti:
> > What is the consequence/sequel if the server is blacklisted?
> > No one can connect or is the browser not shown in the server-browser?
> >
> >
> > Am 18.07.2015 um 12:37 schrieb ics:
> >> They ban the IP because it's so much easier to just switch port than
> >> IP. That being said, i don't think they much thought gameserver
> >> providers with this change.
> >>
> >> -ics
> >>
> >> faustoFF kirjoitti:
> >>> Hello, Vitaliy and dear CS:GO developers!
> >>>
> >>> Can you, please, not block whole IP and just block pair of IP:port?
> >>>
> >>> I am gameservers hosting provider and found gameservers of my
> >>> clients, who
> >>> dont break the rules, not unavailable. Its killing for those
business!
> >>>
> >>> Also banned CS:GO Competitive servers, not available for plugin
> >>> installation
> >>> on my hosting. Its absolutely horribly thing to block whole IP
> >>> instead of a
> >>> small number of servers (ports) on this IP!
> >>>
> >>> I am individual entrepreneur in hard work on my last some years
just
> >>> gone in
> >>> one moment after this block tactic.
> >>>
> >>> Please, dont let gameservers business suffer cause of some
clients, who
> >>> break Valve rules about skins. Block this client (IP:port) and dont
> >>> block
> >>> whole IP with innocent users.
> >>>
> >>> Hope you unban my affected IP-s and change bans logic:
> >>> 31.131.252.130
> >>> 83.222.114.74
> >>> 212.76.129.250
> >>> 83.222.117.178
> >>> 83.222.105.242
> >>> 212.76.128.186
> >>> 146.255.193.246
> >>> 146.255.193.218
> >>> 37.200.66.58
> >>> 37.200.66.59
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> View this message in context:
> >>>
http://csgo-servers.1073505.n5.nabble.com/Request-to-Server-Operators-tp9684p9825.html
> >>> Sent from the CSGO_Servers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>>
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