I'm going to get flamed for this! If the copy write says they should not reverse engineer the game or change it in any way, explain to me why the company in question should not stand up for their rights? The idea that "this is just a game" isn't acceptable when the product is not open source. From what I've read this is a closed source program not an open source program. What we need to recognize is, in the United States everyone has a right to due process. If we agree or not with what someone does, they have a right to due process. Even SCO has the right, but they must produce evidence that I don't think they have and it looks like a judge is saying the same thing. Remember SCO gets lots of money from M$. Doom, Quake, Call of Duty, and others have many mods for the original games, but the people who make the games said making the mods is cool. Yes contribute to EFF, yes stand up for what we believe in, but we must let others do the same no mater what we think. Sam. steve ulrich wrote: > absurd, yes. sickening? there's a lot worse going on in this world > that probably deserves the "sickening" moniker. > > write your congress-critter[1], and make sure that you're donating to > the EFF[2]. a plug for the EFF folks is in order. they hire lawyers > and see things through the court system. they lobby folks and they > promote awareness on these issues. > > if you're going to get peeved about this stuff, you might as well > work to do something about it. :) > > On Feb 12, 2005, at 8:37 AM, John Meier wrote: > >> This is just sickening... >> >> http://www.securityfocus.net/news/10466 >> >> >> .... "Hackers, if they're allowed to do this kind of thing, will be >> allowed to hack into any game, anywhere," Pfeiffer warns. "We spent >> millions of dollars to develop these games, and people are coming in >> and changing the code to their liking, and that's illegal." >> > > {snipped - misc. signatures} > > references > ---------- > [1] - > http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm? > State=MN > [2] - http://www.eff.org -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005