Oh yeah there's certainly ways and means to do make life difficult as it were but the point I'm making is that when it comes to legal stuff quite honestly when it comes to this sort of thing, you'd get away with it quite easily with the blind gaming market.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 14 January 2010 18:59 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] using a program called art money for game cheating. 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 __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
