Are Private Server Legal ?

[NeOn]

the thing is all i know is that as far as it goes they arnt legal but if thats the case why hasnt wemade put a stop to pservers?

dont get me wrong i would never ever wish that. I love playing pservers, euro mir sucks tbh! Av even ran a couple of my own servers!!

I just wanna know whats the story with WEMADE and us ? Can LOMCN get shut down??

:suspiciou :suspiciou

 

[Biohazard]

WeMade choses not to persue to sue users because they are not taking away a large amount of money from there P2P profit. And it would cost them more to sue someone over copyright laws then they would make off of it. LOMCN has been threatined to shut down. And over the years has given in at one point but has came back to Private Mir Servers. But look at the chinese, they are running Xenon processor computers with 4 gigs of RAM and on a 100 mbit line with thousands of people playing them. The max english server i've seen had around 100 or so.

 

[NeOn]

i see ...

so they are illegal, however its more hassel than wot its actually worth for WEMADE thou ?!

And as for the chinese .... they release most of the ''new'' pserver stuff !!

 

[Biohazard]

Yep.

 

[NeOn]

hehe good stuff

long live LOMCN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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[Biohazard]

Exactly.

 

[Veora]

cool i dint know that... ty for enlightening us


ps hu the hell can convert the chinese stuff to make it readable... ( im implying that i cant speak a word of chinese :P)



/LordRyu

 

[zion]

There's a way around it, you can put a disclaimer on your server as far as I remember, it was opsted ages ago.

 

[MiloFoxburr]

its illegal no matter what disclaimer you have

However the plume wind emulator is legal faik since there using there own code But we are still breaking the law by using the client on those servers

 

[Xander]

yep we are allowed to use the emu and if we change the client code in some places then and add stuff surely we cant be sued or whatever since in most programs the code has to be the same e.g. Download tools the code has to be the same in some places you cannot re write something that isnt already coded some where else.

so with ledu we have things the 1.9 doesnt but it looks the same so basically are we not covered?

 

[TheBoss]

but we still usin there images so where f00ked. ?

 

[Xander]

we could be using Korean images, we could be using chinese images and we could re image every item if it came down to it ppl have created new items from scratch i created a Bene Bundle image was not hard so if its down to images i think we should re do them change some names then they cant complain about ****

 

[Ragnar]

So if we wouldnt use ANY of the euro mir images, we would get away with it? Just that, basically if you copy something just in a different code it is still breaking the law isnt it?

 

[Xander]

no say if i coded a new game from scratch your telling me my code would not match any one else's game ever made? that would mean i would have to make my own programming language. Basically what ever you code parts of it will always match some one else's unless its a program never been made before and yet some of that code will still be in other programs. So if i got the source for the 1.9 client made it read from different folders and different type Extension files thats changed so instead of .wil/.wix it read from say .mix/.mil and images or completly different i should get away with it if i had all of euros players shouldnt i?

 

[MiloFoxburr]

Xander you couldnt modify Wemades code at all Its there code

The only way you could modify the code is if Wemade gave you permission too which isnt gonna happen

 

[Xander]

yes i know that but if i coded a new 1.9 client (not gonna happen) then would some code not be the same? yep it would so is it not possible for them to pursue the case even tho its my code? what im getting at is if we did modify their code enuf to notice the change how would they know if it is their or ours?

 

[MiloFoxburr]

Might as well code your own then rather than using wemades

 

[NeOn]

Xander you couldnt modify Wemades code at all Its there code

The only way you could modify the code is if Wemade gave you permission too which isnt gonna happen

tbh they should ask people from lomcn to do their maps, items etc! They suck!! :P

 

[Ragnar]

tbh they should ask people from lomcn to do their maps, items etc! They suck!! :P

Agreed actually :erum:

 

[NeOn]

anover thing .... they gota be pissed at us cos its taken a good part of 2 years for wemade to get from Mir 1.4 to Mir 2.0

its take LOMCN about 12months ?? lol :P:P :bannana:

and its their stuff ffs lol