Hi, Ben. Who knows. My guess is that is pretty hard for anyone to locate and investigate every possible misuse of their licensed material. It is a case of it is so common place that they can't necessarily take action against everyone so quite a bit of it just slips through the cracks. What Bryan and I are mainly getting at is what could happen if you were to get caught. Not necessarily implying you will get caught, or anything will actually come of it. I too have seen cases where this or that just slipped through the cracks unnoticed. For example, way back in the early 90's before I had completely lost my sight the big thing was the game called Doom. One of the things that made Doom so popular is ID Software released an expantion for the game that allowed you to create your own wad files complete with custom graphics, sounds, level maps, etc. It got to be a huge hit with mainstream gamers and naturally there were all kinds of expantions such as Terminator, Star Wars, etc that ran on the Doom engine. Surprisingly nobodywas making an issue of the various expantions, but they certainly could have seeing as these were obvious rip offs of copyrighted material like Star Wars. Then, of course, Agrip modified ID Software's Quake engine and named it Audio Quake. Cara Quinn, who I believe is on this list, created her own version of Audio Quake with a Star Wars theme called Jedi Quake. Cara has never gotten in any trouble with her Jedi Quake mod but that's not to say Lucas Licensing couldn't come breathing down on her someday for it either. It is probably just a case of what they don't know won't hurt them, or us for that matter. As for end user licensing I figured as much. A lot of people have a bad habbit of not reading them, but they really should. It might sound like a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo, but it really tells you and others what the terms of the software are. If you do something that is not permited in the terms of the license the developer or company has the right to take you to court and sue for damages. Saying you didn't read the license is no defence in court. If you click the "I Agree" button then you agreed to it. That's all there is to it.
Smile. On 10/3/10, Ben <gamehead...@aol.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry tom. I wish to give you my most humble apologies. No one that I know > reads those things anyway. Its just out of habit. But thanks for bringing > that to light. Here's the conundrum for you. How comes people can post > thousands or even millions of videos on youtube regarding star wars mods of > commercial games that have the same type of agreement and they do not get > destroyed for it? --- 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.
