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what if seirra wants to make it themselfs. i dont think they copyrighted it. would they have to pay that guy money to give it back to them?

sorry to bump this thread back up but i jsut found it and im really curious

Cheapy, mabey your question is Who authed it

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Well, whoever made it is an idiot, and he won't be successful If Valve wanted Opposing Force 2, they'd make it themselves.

CPR for autolocking.

I'll update the first post very soon hopefully

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isn't id helping out the open source community? so why would they fox crap liek that? that would be pretty hypocritical

Mods get foxed all the time when they develop using IP they don't own, this is just the way it goes. Heck the term foxing comes from the Alien Doom 1 mod back in the day!

People are always well aware of the risks involved when they do this kind of project.

So our Transformers project can be foxed? Hmm... i dont think that Hasbro try to close us in Russia.

BTW, we dont have such laws. :-p

because they don't make the content opensource, just the engine's. I'd say they are the nicest company to be foxed by because they will help you out instead of throw you in prison first.

Q1 actually. I remember the announcement. Once I read that I went directly to cd-rom.com & got it. (it wasn't bad gameplay wise but the graphics were far from finished. Aliens Doom was so cool it couldn't be foxed! ).

satos wrote:So our Transformers project can be foxed? Hmm... i dont think that Hasbro try to close us in Russia.
BTW, we dont have such laws. :-p

You should realy keep up on current news. Russia is interested in expanding trade with the US & the US said Russia most start following US copyright law's to protect US companies. And you distribute in the US & have content on US servers, so you do fall under US law (just like I couldn't go to China servers & put up anti-china content w/o them removing it from their servers)

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Actually, the Doom Aliens mod wasn't CnD'd to my knowledge, because of game laws being a bit of a grey area when it arrived. 3rd party content like that wasn't really expected and there wasn't much of a mod community like there is today.

As for the legal situation in Russia, I'd be careful, it doesn't just come down to "In Russian we don't have these laws", because you're messing with an internationally distributable content set, and thus it's not just governed by your laws. If you do nothing to prevent users in some countries downloading your content (which in many cases, all that is required is a warning screen telling the user that what they may be downloading may be illegal where they are), then you can still be liable.

I've seen a US mod team shut down by a Danish legal firm before, in some rather odd circumstances, so it can happen.

Actually, that might just be an indicator that they're planning to stop operating their servers within a couple of years..

I don't know, a lot of people bitched and complained about it, but from what I've seen (my gf's mom plays religiously, i swear she knows everyone in the entire game personally. .. she has the fastest computer in the house, lives in our basement, and her computer only has: windows, and swg, and she hardly ever -leaves- the basement) very few people actually left.

I've looked at what the game was before the current "enhancement", and I don't think I would've wanted to play it at all before. I still don't want to play it now, but at least I could see NOW how star wars fans actually could play it. GF and GF's mom were not starwars fans when they picked it up.. they picked it up because it wasn't a fantasy MMO.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure ESF did get approached in the past about it, and they had to go in and change all of these things so they wouldn't get shut down. Now, they're supported by Funimation, though I'm sure they're only going to let that one go free.