yaustar, thx you basicly reinforced the jist of what I was trying to get at and apparently it flew over RedKings head..... as did your comment.
-.- this may not be worth discussing anymore.. but here it goes....
READ THE D@MN COPYRIGHT NOTICE OF YOUR FREAKIN GAMES and the TOS. Also read the DMCA and the Fair Use acts and educate yourself before you post again.
And Steam can do whatever they want they made their TOS for their game NOT the COUNTRY or anyone else.
So once more in the old days Fair Use pretty much said you could make a copy of anything you want and even if it has copy protection, your allowed to circumvent it due to you owning it and it falling under Fair Use, so backup your VCR tape? completely legal
Then in 1998 the DMCA came into play and companies were able to use it against Fair Use. Now instead of it being plain and simple it goes like this "Now it says you have a fair use as long as you don't employ certain technologies." And guess what those certain technologies include RedKing..... so please read the DMCA and Fair Use before dishing out any more BS in these forums.
And for your information, know it all, I am from the US, Texas in matter fact. And you should have recognized the word "OUR"(meaning we and myself) when I was talking about illegal immigrants and obviously not the immigrants in the UK or europe because majority of those contries deal with online VAT tax and I specificly said "besides the store tax and maybe not even that if they order online"
At any rate this tid bit right here
"If you are member of any antipiracy or related group or organization you cannot enter this site and view any of site contents. If you enter this site and do not agree with current terms you can not provide any treatment of our hosting ISPs, organization or any persons storing this site information because your actions will be estimated as violation code no. 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act from 1995."
is 100% BS, it was a hoax, an attempt to make it look like what they are doing is legal to one the visitors and two their own hosting company. What you say doesn't have to be true as long as people believe it and most hosting companies will probably let it be, as long as it appears legit they don't care as long as your paying for it and they don't get sued. But there have been a number of host to drop sites like those due to getting cease and desist orders.
Also fine example of the DMCA in action would be www.cherryroms.com , notice how some roms are downloadable but a lot of them aren't? Such as the mario games? That is because those companies have specificly expressed that they will protect their copyrights and they will persue offenders....some offenders at least.... not that the ones that are avaliable to d/l are any less copyrighted but some companies have gone away and others have specificly said they no longer care about their no longer selling games and encourage its distribution aka ID soft would be an example. And even if a company goes away technically their stuff they copyrighted or patented is still upheld. Copyrights cannot be lost, Trademarks however can be.
BUT for the most part due to how Fair Use and the DMCA is inturpeted by a judge, things can get VERY GREY. But to give everyone re-assurance the one with the most expensive lawyer usually wins........
For more info here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/invent...nt_protect.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/genericized-trademark
happy reading j@ck @ss.......
maybe I am wrong bout all that....but I doubt it..... =)
and yes all this was specificly aimed towards RedKing, and copyrighted by me glitch©
