Stealing Games

Posted by Warptweet on Oct. 3, 2006, 8:35 p.m.

Whats wrong with you people?

You accuse me of stealing games?

They are freeware games.

FREEware, as in FREE to distribute.

You guys are idiots, you made up your own freeware law.

Comments

poultry 18 years, 2 months ago

…WTF?

frenchcon1 18 years, 2 months ago

ZOMFG!!!!! 82 COMMENTS FOR WARPTWEET!!!!!

frenchcon1 18 years, 2 months ago

interesting to see that he doesnt have any friends…

Amarin 18 years, 2 months ago

Wow. WTF? 85? I got 86 at most! :(

LoserHands 18 years, 2 months ago

he should ask b4 he just took those games, i think the admin should take off the "save" feature from the GAMES section,

V 18 years, 2 months ago

.!.<_<.!.

warptweet, good christ. it may be freeware, but don't you think quite a couple of people will be pissed off for not knowing that you took something they made and out it on your site all of a sudden? because i certainly would be VERY, VERY, VERY PISSED OFF if i found something i worked on someplace where i never gave them permission to put it! anyways, the point i'm trying to make here is - is just don't screw around with that kind of thing. everyone wins uuntil they lose, and based on what they had to do to win tells you exactly how hard you're gonna fall.

Amarin 18 years, 2 months ago

Yeah. I'd only be complimented if you told me first.

HeroofTime55 18 years, 2 months ago

Most people distributing freeware have PERMISSION FROM THEIR AUTHORS. I was going to give you a chance, but now I see you're defending your actions. n00b.

And on thinking it's legal: ITS NOT.

Who's to say it's even freeware? The GM licence itself says that the creators "can even sell their games", and that's not so with freeware. Just because it's GM dosent mean it's automatically freeware.

And, even with freeware, it's not public domain. You can distribute public domain works however you like. But freeware is NOT public domain, and so you have NO LEGAL PERMISSION WHATSOEVER to distribute such works without their authours permission, unless they EXPLICITLY STATE that they release their work into public domain.

You broke the law. Be thankful it was a very minor incident, and no one will likely file a lawsuit.

Amarin 18 years, 1 month ago

What HeroofTime55 said.

Amarin 18 years, 1 month ago

And this is a lot of comments. Haven't seen this many since Luda's blog on the RPG.