Hi, Not only are copyrights an issue but the cost of litigation is usually too expensive to take someone's butt to court for piracy. That's the main reason why I agreed to discontinue Montezuma's Revenge. By the time I litigated the copyright issues with Utopia I'd be thousands of dollars in the hole. Even if I won the litigation the money spent on fighting the suit couldn't b recovered through sales from such a small minority market. There are ways however of punishing the offending parties without legal litigation.For example, if you know certain keys are being used by pirates the developer can black list those keys an an updated version of the game. Another option is to use some sort of online registration system that keeps track of the number of times a certain key has been installed. If it reaches the magic number of installs it will not register the game.
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 10:25 +0000, Darren Harris wrote: > Technically yes but in practicality to be honest the majority of blind games > out there are clones of the original so even if the developer was to take > someone to court over it they probably wouldn't get far because it's not > original material and they probably haven't got copy write permission anyway > so it's probably never going to be an issue beyond a bit of kicking and > screaming. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
