I would REALLY like a response from Valve on this one.
I have been attempting to showcase the perfectly legal and still vastly
beneficial uses for Peer to Peer networks... and now it turns out that
someone out there has a problem with me mirroring the following files:
Enemy Territory Client - (Free multiplayer game) -
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/124800.shtml
Half-Life 1.1.1.0 Full Patch - (Free patch for Half-Life)
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/50000/57317.shtml
Doom III Legacy Interview (Free documentary/advertisement for Doom 3)
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/80000/88436.shtml
Half-Life 2 Bugbait Video - (Free gameplay video released by Valve to
showcase HL2)
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/128555.shtml
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me a DMCA notification about these files, which are all
mirrored at a dozen websites around the world. I'd really like to think that
theESA has decided that P2P is ONLY used for illegal purposes, and just did
a generic search for "doom", "halflife" and "wolfenstein".
So the question is, Valve, do YOU have a problem with this? Did you really
give every major website that is mirroring your patch express permission to
redistribute it?
And to everyone else... WTF?
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