Have you ever heard of an open source program called DeCSS? People
thought the same thing about that, and then the movie industry dragged
a 16 year old kid through court to prove them wrong. Now thanks to the
US government it is ILLEAGAL to play DVDs on your Linux box.
If you were distributing the datafiles on your website and a lawyer
from GW called and demanded that you desist would you risk your financial
well being on principle?
Making Lone Wolf remove the datafiles from the autoupdate would be as
trivial as having their lawyer send him a letter.
GW has forced quite a few sites that are critical of them to disist using
their graphics on their websites (Cult of the Rogue Trader most
prominantly)
long after those sites went up. If you're the owner of an IP then you can,
are obligated to actually, force others to stop using it.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:04:56 -0800, Gene <gcc@siegetower.com> wrote:
>>
>> Since GW doesn't have anything like an OGL they can just
>> order LoneWolf to stop supporting their products. Anyone
>> who's been gaming for long enough knows that GW would
>> do exactly that to anything that dares compete with their
>> own products.
>>
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> this will probably be almost impossible to enforce, seeing that the
> Datafiles are not written by Lone Wolf, but by users not affiliated with
> Lone Wolf. All LW COULD be made to do is ask end users not to use/write
> datafiles for GW games, which in turn LW could not enforce. IF GW could
> enforce this, they would have years ago.
>
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