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Youtube.com Our interview with Game Cannon, it would be great if you could go and watch the video and support these guys.

Contact him

Hosting DNS failure, Godaddy was hacked. Should be back up soon though

Great, now we just want more people to do this too!

We can't run out of money if we don't start with any, thats the whole point of the mod... Non for profit.

Youtube.com Lets get noticed here

But the point we are making, is that you wouldn't have sacrificed LOTRO if not for the C&D, so WB have cause the problem they were trying to avoid ;)

no, over 7000

look at our rank... there you go.

No no no no no... Don't use the copyrighted music and font. We can give you some music to use, but for heavens sake don't use that.

We have written a letter to send around the internet:

Dear [recipient],

I would like to inform you of a Lord of the Rings fan modification of the Elder Scrolls Skyrim, which has recently been issued a cease and desist letter from Warner Brothers Entertainment. The mod's name is MERP (Middle earth Roleplaying Project), which has been in development since before 2008 (though then for a different game). Since then, the team has matured and the mod has seen a huge boost in quality, fan support and developemnt experience.

Now we need all the support we can get from fans, other modders, game websites, famous people and whoever can help to spread news about our current situation to show Warner Bros. how much everyone cares about our project.

After contact with Warner Brothers, they did not permit us to continue the project privately with no public releases. We have contact with a lawyer who is trying to argue our case as transformative and under 'fair use', but we also need all the support we can get!

Please help our cause, and spread the news and don't let this awesome non-profit project come to an end!

We have a petition, facebook pages, and a twitter hashtag – #SaveMERP

Facebook: Facebook.com

Petition: Gopetition.com

Our main news and blog site is: Moddb.com

Please help us and spread the news!

Together we can save MERP!

--MERP fans and gamers

The money is donated to GoPetition, but they use it to advertise our petition on other sites. We never see the money... we didnt even know about it until about an hour ago :P
The licenes vary... anything from £5k to $50k

Its all done through the GoPetitions website, we have no control over it.
Also I hope you realise just how much a licence would cost... probably 100 times the donations we've had.

Thank-you to eveyone who donated on the petition, also we have just passed 3000 signatures!
Please don't donate any more though, the money doesnt come to us, it goes on advertising the petition... its currently got advertising set for the next 116 days :P

Every little helps :)

The c&d letter was emailed to the team's email address, this contains no real-name of any team member, has no single IP address which uses it. The c&d was issued by an attourney of Warner Bros.
They originally, nor curently intend to sue the team, it was mearly a warning.
And yes, we have contacted a lawyer.

This would be a good idea. Everyone who can should start tweeting Angry Joe, Total Biscuit, The Yogscast... Everyone

We have a backer... Youtube.com Everyone go and say Hi, then share our promotional video that will be appearing soon

Yep, any video where we will get noticed

Just over half a day

as many as we can get

Gopetition.com
Here is our petition, make this happen!

They think we have a real chance

You realise the 'Saul Zaentz company' is Warner Bros. And We have tried tweeting them, but I feel we need the community to start tweeting them en masse. One persons tweet will not get noticed, but a few hundereds will.

ok, thanks good

Put us in contact with them, this sounds great

We were considering that a long time ago, but its too much effort and it also takes away what MERP means. If we have to change all the names, most of us will just drop the mod.

That isn't a half bad idea, if we are allowed to continue that will be one of our suggestions.

Anything to gain exposure is awesome! Please tell everyone you can.

More of this!^