Just want to rant for a minute

posted on August 12th, 2010, 5:57 am

I recently was checking ebay for another copy of armada 2 iso are nice and all but i like having the disk, My retail disk wich i purchased is at my uncles house atm. But anyways i came arcoss some idiot trying to sell other peoples mods and that just urks me, he even has fleet ops as one of these "mods" he has for sale on his title. I know we all work hard to do this stuff i just wish there was a way to get him some backlash or something for stealing and selling what we all came together to share. anyways sorry i guess its not that good of a rant but i hate people like that

posted on August 12th, 2010, 6:13 am

What an arrogant prick!  >:(

posted on August 12th, 2010, 6:15 am

Ive been doing some research on his past sales, hes sold this same mod package 32 times sence oct 09 someone needs to shoot him

posted on August 12th, 2010, 6:20 am

Could you PM me a link to his site.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 2:20 pm

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 597wt_1137

This is illigal I wonder if the devs have any legal recourse in this case.

[Anonymous]

posted on August 12th, 2010, 2:40 pm

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I didn't see anything about FO in there*, but it is definitely illegal.  Even if he made it all himself, he is selling them.

It is disturbing.  I will look into it myself, as this could be a serious issue.

*Never mind, I did see something about fleet operations mods.

Mods include:
Fleet Operations mods

First on the list.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 3:06 pm

I didn't see anything about FO in there, but it is definitely illegal.

It's in there in the description.

Mods include:
Fleet Operations mods

Also, the one below looks like the Merciless Klingon AI that Freyr developed recently.

new AI that makes the Klingon Hard AI... hard

Also has some other well known mods such as Borg Incursion 2. I'm sending messages to Freyr, Starfleet Kid, and Majestic.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 3:08 pm

yeah, I posted a thread on MSFC.  It may include some of jetfreak's re textures, and Fahres's GUI mods.  I can't say for sure, but it also has the b5 mod, ans SWFC.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 3:21 pm

There can only be one answer: Sue him or have someone do it.  >:(

posted on August 12th, 2010, 3:26 pm

unfortunately, no one person can sue him.  In fact, you couldn't sue him for money, all you can do is make him give any money back, and I doubt you would be able to do even that.  We'll see how it turns out though.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 3:31 pm

They're distributing unlicensed Star Wars material for profit. If George Lucas finds out he'll probably sue him into oblivion. J. Michael Straczynski also has a claim due to the Babylon 5 material. And lets not forget Paramount, with all that Star Trek stuff.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 4:52 pm

unfortunately, no one person can sue him.

You can't? I'm pretty sure that even with Activision not being in the Armada-business anymore their lawyers would be interested in making sure that Activision's copyright is respected.
In fact I can imagine a whole lot of people to whom this guy's copyright infringements might be of concern.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 4:58 pm

The EULA asks you to contact Activision if anybody approaches you to sell you work commercially.  He didn't ask, but i've emailed them anyway asking what their intentions are.

If I don't hear anything back i'll consider emailing the seller directly and CC'ing eBay's legal department.  He doesn't own what he's selling, and it's not licensed from any of the developers involved.

Under British law, any of the developers can sue him and the A2 EULA only prevents us from selling things for a profit.  To the best of my understanding (I spent the better part of 7 years working for a Solicitors practice) it doesn't prevent us from receiving money from a court settlement for copyright infringement.

posted on August 12th, 2010, 5:10 pm

Ugh, that's really unpleasant  >:(

posted on August 12th, 2010, 5:29 pm

The EULA asks you to contact Activision if anybody approaches you to sell you work commercially.  He didn't ask, but i've emailed them anyway asking what their intentions are.

If I don't hear anything back i'll consider emailing the seller directly and CC'ing eBay's legal department.  He doesn't own what he's selling, and it's not licensed from any of the developers involved.

Under British law, any of the developers can sue him and the A2 EULA only prevents us from selling things for a profit.  To the best of my understanding (I spent the better part of 7 years working for a Solicitors practice) it doesn't prevent us from receiving money from a court settlement for copyright infringement.

^^Thats good to hear though