Posted by Dr. Casey on 6/5/2009, 8:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Because then a C&D letter will give way to an actual lawsuit."
Again, you will probably downplay this with some hand-waving and a sarcastic pronouncement, but it's all but certain that a fan-remade Chrono Trigger would be mentioned on at least one of them.
Strider...
Why do you make me out to be a rude person?
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: Wouldn't a prepatched rom not require such
: a thing? You'd just be downloading a
: completely different game, the original
: wouldn't even be accessible. I guess Square
: didn't even consider that, though, in their
: rush to prove how badass they are and
: oppress the little man.
:
: If you're distributing a patched ROM, a
: corporate lawyer sees you distributing a
: game including large swaths of their
: copyrighted graphics, music, and source code
: for free, which is more commonly referred to
: as "copyright infringement".
: Furthermore, it is being distributed in a
: form which looks like the actual Chrono
: Trigger, sounds like the actual Chrono
: Trigger, plays like the actual Chrono
: Trigger, in all likelyhood has Square's name
: plastered across the title screen, is listed
: next to the actal Chrono Trigger on ROM
: sites, and is yet not created by Square and
: is completely out of Square's editoral
: control. If the game is bad, that will
: reflect poorly on Square in the eyes of many
: gamers - I'm sure you will scoff at this
: concept, but it's true. Note also that the
: game industry as a whole is regularly held
: responsible for content of games which it
: had no part in creating - in the admittedly
: very unlikely case that one arose over this,
: Square's image would suffer.
:
: You've claimed that only a handful of people
: will play this- but a huge ROM hack on a
: popular game is exactly the sort of story
: that gets mentioned on big nerd news sites,
: places like Slashdot and Penny Arcade that
: get daily hit counts in the five and six
: digits. Again, you will probably downplay
: this with some hand-waving and a sarcastic
: pronouncement, but it's all but certain that
: a fan-remade Chrono Trigger would be
: mentioned on at least one of them.
:
: I look at these actions, and I simply can't
: see the malevolent entity behind them that
: many of you here seem to be attributing this
: letter to- I see a company which is, sadly,
: growing more conservative in defense of
: their properties and revenue streams- as all
: companies of a certain size do.
:
: - HC
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