Pirated Europa Barbarorum

[Sir Edward]

I hope you are kidding about Halo 4 and Sims 7 being sold - it would be funny to see who is actually dumb enough to buy them.

note: There is no way we can do even the remotest thing about this though. Those places are shut down constantly and reopen next door. There is no reason to lose any sleep over it when absolutely nothing can be done about it.

Okay so a couple things. I am pretty sure that Sims 7 is really the 5th expansion pack (Bon Voyage) of Sims 2, and Halo 4 is really Halo 3 plus the first map expansion pack. Kind of silly, but you got to say new and improve some how. I remember when I was in Argentina 4 years ago they were claiming to be playing Age of Empires III, when it hadn't even come out yet. Turns out they thought Age of Mythology was suppose to be part of the series and were counting it. Not justifying the practice just saying there is some reasonin the madness to look for .

Next your attitude TA towards this seems a little more realistic then the guys who are asking for the balls of these sellers on a silver platter. As much of a pushover as it will make me sound there ain't squat that can be done legally. If something could be done about these pirates you would think multibillion dollar companies like Sony would be able to stop blackmarket DVDs reaching the streets of Hong Kong. And you guys some how expect mighty EB (no direspect to your legal department (is there even a legal department?)) to crush these people with the long arm of the law? I am not saying its right people, it isn't, I'm just sayng it's a sign of the times.

[Nobo]

you guys should just consider it a homage

[JMRC]

Don't interpret me in the wrong way, but if these guys have wasted their time packaging a mod like EB and are sell it, I can only mean they deem the content is worthy of value, which is always good to know.

As for the legal issues, they are totally in the hands of CA, since they have all the legal rights. EB is a free content and doesn't work by itself: it always needs the original game. As such, in practice, these guys are actually pirating the original game and distributing EB along with it. So, the only entity that can legally persecute them is CA.

[Swordmaster]

There's even nothing about it in the License Agreement. The only thing these pirates are doing is promoting the reading of more history.

[Krusader]

Seriously...if anyone can prove that EB is being sold in Malaysia as Pez says, I might bloody give them an EB tshirt.

And yes as Teleklos says, no need to lose sleep over it. Not much can be done.

[brymht]

WOW. Thats really shitty.

[Ozymandias the Great]

Let's speak about copyright law for a moment. *puts on lawyer pants* In the U.S., there is an automatic copyright, which means, if you make something, it's copyrighted. However, if you plan to take it to court, you have to register the copyright with the government. Now, there are 6 rights associated with copyright. By making EB a free download, you grant the downloader the right to play the game as much as they want. However, because you don't specifically release the other 5 rights, I believe (I'm not sure) that even though you didn't say "Thou shalt not copy and sell", it is illegal to copy and sell EB and thereby transfer the rights to others. I learned this in my electronic music class, not law school, so I can't say this is exactly right, but it's the information I have.