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Originally Posted by jasonbirder
I assume you refrain from giving me a thorough reply because a thorough reply would expose the holes in your logic...I can find No examples of commercial software publishers taking legal action to close down sites offering Mods of game software to legitimate software purchasers (Pirated Software is a different issue) ...
There are no examples of individual users being taken to court for breach of EULA's, though there are test cases in law that set the precedent that EULAs are non-enforcable contracts...
Ubisoft as a software publisher have always openly encouraged community modification of their software titles and i suspect are as baffled as the rest of us at the hostility a tiny proportion of the IL2 community exhibits to the many and varied improvements to the game a bunch of hard working and talented amateurs have created.
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I could care less about the EULA business and all the hoopla about piracy,etc.
Don't read this wrong. I buy my software, because if you don't it's stealing. It's a fact, if you'll steal a quarter you'll steal anything worth more than a quarter... and you're a thief. I don't want to be a thief or a liar. It's darned easy to get anything you want off the web.. music, movies, software, etc. from P2P sites. I know where to go and how to do it, but it's wrong. It is important to live life with a clear conscience and best choices for the way we want to live and work with others.
The courts in America decide some of the craziest chit you can imagine. So, I'd say it aint over until the fat lady sings and the plaintiff has spent his fortune in a legal battle that is NOT worth the effort or costs.
People are just going to do things that aren't exactly upright. YOu can buy all kinds of expensive software off the Ebay and it's pirated. You think Ebay cares? I bought a software off an ebay seller once and the seller used all the promotional literature from the official software. Everything was explained just like I was getting the "FOR REAL SURE FIRE" all official software.
Nope... it came on a burned CD with a handwritten Marksalot name.
I contacted the Jerk and he said he had written authorization to do it.
No way, but I'm not the software police. I threw it in the trash and moved on with my life.
Life is about choices. Making good choices, makes me feel good about my life.