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Posted by mazemaster on Tue Oct 7th at 1:14pm 2003

? posted by KungFuSquirrel
NS is the first mod to have, well, foxed fox. Remember AvP2: Natural Selection? Oh, wait, they had to change the name to Primal Hunt.

Wow. I didnt know it was a legal issue rather than a courteous decision by the AvP2 team, but that is truly amazing. LOL.

Its great that all the copyright legal mumbojumbo worked against a pro game design team, but the trouble is that having all the legal might in the world cant stop people from pirating textures on the internet. Its not like the NS team would get anything out of sueing some 13 year old who made a fy_map with ns textures, and its not like they could stop the map from being played after it had been released.





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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Tue Oct 7th at 2:16pm 2003

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Wow. I didnt know it was a legal issue rather than?a courteous?decision?by the?AvP2 team, but that is truly amazing. LOL.


Well, from my understanding, it was a combination of the two. As in they courteously decided to re-name it after they realized that Natural Selection was already a registered trademark. [addsig]



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Posted by DesPlesda on Wed Oct 8th at 9:30pm 2003

? posted by Orpheus

personally, and i know its not a popular view, but if someone posts a link to an object, be it wad,map, or whatever, it becomes public domain

Orph, public domain means that anyone can do anything to the object at all. If your argument is that posting a link to some warez makes that software public domain, it is seriously flawed.

For example: 'I've uploaded the ns2.wad. Yay me. I'll add a link too. That makes it my property, because by linking to it it's public domain. I pwnz j00, flayra!'






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