It does kind-of irk me that these guys are making so much money off of our hard work, but is it really anything different than organizations like fileplanet does? They are charging you for downloading and making a CD copy for you, not for the games themselves (or so they could argue).
Maybe the question we should be asking is if it is okay for us to do the same sorts of things to recoup some of our costs? As long as mods continue to be freely available to download, can we set up services to distribute the mod on CD for a small fee to customers that prefer not to download 100+ meg? Not that I had even thought of this before now, but it might be a way for some mods to pay for some of the bandwidth required to host mod sites and fund development. Rob Prouse (Commando) Tour of Duty Mod http://www.tourofdutymod.com At 02:01 PM 29/12/2002 +0000, you wrote:
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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