Hi, M.J. Your concerns are certainly valid, but unfortunately this is a classic case of big corperation verses a single nobody. First off At&T and companies like them are use to dealing with huge corperations, and they are really worried about Sony, Microsoft, or anyone else with a big name using their products illegally. If you are Joe Smo, and you use it here and there it is doubtful they will notice, and if they do notice often it isn't worth following up on as they can't get money from someone who doesn't have much to begin with. Remember they are the ones who charge insanely large prices for the rights to distribute there voices, and often they put it well beyond what a blind developer can afford. So what is the alternative? Another classic case of this is my brief, but unhappy attempts to contact Lucasfilm for the rights to make SWJS. As far as I was able to get was Lucas doesn't deal licenses out to private individuals. They only handle licenses to major corperations, and of course they are talking serious money like millions of bucks as that is what they have set their standards at. To add insult to injury they mainly have one game company Lucas Arts which does 99% of the Star Wars games, and Lucas Arts to my knolege does not seam any bit interested in making them accessible at this time. So what do I do? Well, I am blind, I am a developer, and I have the skills to write Star Wars Games. My only problem is Lucas won't sell me a license, and if they did it would be well beyond a private individuals pay. So I have to do it, and hope I remain under the radar.
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