An other solution would be to include in all the mods a "CANNOT BE SOLD"
label in the installers... It wouldn't prevent the sellers to sell the CD,
but the customer could ask the reseller for justification...
- Cortex : HL ALBATOR coder & mapper
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] & ICQ : 71548738
Michael Shimmins wrote:
> Write them a harsh Letter of Demand stating your intention to persue
> legal action should they not stop what they are doing.
>
> This usually gets a good response, works even better if you have a law
> firm to do it for you.
>
> Michael Shimmins
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike
> "Beamish" Blowers
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Our MOD's are for sale !!
>
>
> This maybe a little OT, but in any case it affects a lot of us....
>
> I recently went to a "computer fair" here in the UK, one stand was
> selling lots of obviously "copied" CD's... The Quality of the CD
> Labels
> and Inserts were infact diabolical..
>
> I stumbled across a CD with several HL mod's on it... the main picture
> was of Counter Stirke.... the mods were listed on the back, amongst
> the
> mods were my own mod "Wanted", as well as lots of other popular mods,
> Action HL, DoD etc..etc... too many to list... but the vendor was
> illegally selling the CD's for �10.00 GBP.
>
> When I confronted the seller asking what permission he had for selling
> these mod's.. he stated they were all free-ware... I know this is not
> the case, although Mods are avaliable freely for download, it is not
> legal to re-sell them... So I want to know what you people think of
> this... I know that many of us don't get a penny for all the time and
> effort we put in to creating these mods, but it drives me mad to think
> that someone else is just downloading them, cutting them to disc and
> making money out of doing so.
>
> I forced the seller to give me the details of the person who he gets
> them from, which I now have. (although I only have a name and UK
> Telephone number).
>
> What are your thoughts ?
>
> Mike.
>
>
>
>
>
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