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There has been a lot of stuff going on lately regarding Kidd's "abuse" by removing content from the Portfolio section to protect copyright, which prompted me to make this thread. I just wanted to present a few points regarding his copyright infringement defensive actions in a calm and mature manner. If you're going to reply with useless shenanigans then please, don't reply at all.
This is RaGEZONE, the most popular MMORPG private server development forum on the internet. RaGEZONE is the host of a numerous amount server files, ranging from "official" files to emulators.
Emulators are legal. No unlawful actions are taken in the creation of emulators. The only thing you are doing is breaking a company's Terms of Service, where in a nutshell they more often than not state that any manipulation of the game files for any use other than playing the game breaks their Terms of Service and they reserve the right to suspend your game account. Again, not illegal.
"Official" server files are files that are obtained by either by them being leaked from a member of a development team or someone authorized to handle the files, or by a security breach from a hacker gaining elevated access to a server to archive and download the server files. Both cases being considered stolen, and we all know that stealing is illegal. By using the "official" server files to run a server you are profitting, whether in money or in community members, from illegally obtained propety.
You may be wondering what my point is...
In the MU Online section, there are a lot of "development teams" that are selling a product that derives from Webzen's (owner of MU Online) source code. They take illegally obtained server files, fix the bugs, add in custom features, then sell them to the public. Not only does RaGEZONE permit these actions, they also promote these actions by selling advertisment banners to these groups and stickying their threads so more people see the files being sold. I'm not complaining about this, this is great. Its good for people to offer premium server files to people who can afford to run a great server. It is better for the players as they know they are playing on a server where a lot of money has already been invested.
My point is the following;
Kidd is making a lot of fuss about people taking bits and pieces of other peoples' web designs and adding them to their own. How is this any different at all from the MU Online scenario I just described? People take something as a base from someone else, then they modify it to suit their needs and either use their product for themselves or sell it to others. Same concept, but rather than being server files its website templates.
So my question is this; why is this permitted in the MU Online section, but this is NOT permitted in the portfolio section? The actions Kidd have taken recently are creating MAJOR double standards on RaGEZONE and its stuff like this that cause the quality of RaGEZONE as a whole to drop. The amount of people who have left RaGEZONE due to actions such as what Kidd is taking is enough people to build a large community in itself. Lots of great members have left here because of the shenanigans certain moderators put the members through.
I'd love to hear a valid reason as to why Kidd is allowed to take these actions against members of RaGEZONE when this has been going on throughout this site for years, though I know I am not entitled to it. This is mainly here for everyone who was defending Kidd to realize why they are wrong.
It needs to be survival of the fittest, just like every other development section here. So what if someone takes your ideas? If someone does your idea better than you do, so be it. Learn to improve yourself to beat them. If you can't, move on and find a better idea. People have stolen a lot of my ideas over the years and I have learned from that and moved on, done things that are even better.
Please, don't comment if you can't reply with a maturely structured post. Getting tired of the "OMG HE IS SO BAD WTF" and "STFU UR WRONG LOL" shenanigans.
This is RaGEZONE, the most popular MMORPG private server development forum on the internet. RaGEZONE is the host of a numerous amount server files, ranging from "official" files to emulators.
Emulators are legal. No unlawful actions are taken in the creation of emulators. The only thing you are doing is breaking a company's Terms of Service, where in a nutshell they more often than not state that any manipulation of the game files for any use other than playing the game breaks their Terms of Service and they reserve the right to suspend your game account. Again, not illegal.
"Official" server files are files that are obtained by either by them being leaked from a member of a development team or someone authorized to handle the files, or by a security breach from a hacker gaining elevated access to a server to archive and download the server files. Both cases being considered stolen, and we all know that stealing is illegal. By using the "official" server files to run a server you are profitting, whether in money or in community members, from illegally obtained propety.
You may be wondering what my point is...
In the MU Online section, there are a lot of "development teams" that are selling a product that derives from Webzen's (owner of MU Online) source code. They take illegally obtained server files, fix the bugs, add in custom features, then sell them to the public. Not only does RaGEZONE permit these actions, they also promote these actions by selling advertisment banners to these groups and stickying their threads so more people see the files being sold. I'm not complaining about this, this is great. Its good for people to offer premium server files to people who can afford to run a great server. It is better for the players as they know they are playing on a server where a lot of money has already been invested.
My point is the following;
Kidd is making a lot of fuss about people taking bits and pieces of other peoples' web designs and adding them to their own. How is this any different at all from the MU Online scenario I just described? People take something as a base from someone else, then they modify it to suit their needs and either use their product for themselves or sell it to others. Same concept, but rather than being server files its website templates.
So my question is this; why is this permitted in the MU Online section, but this is NOT permitted in the portfolio section? The actions Kidd have taken recently are creating MAJOR double standards on RaGEZONE and its stuff like this that cause the quality of RaGEZONE as a whole to drop. The amount of people who have left RaGEZONE due to actions such as what Kidd is taking is enough people to build a large community in itself. Lots of great members have left here because of the shenanigans certain moderators put the members through.
I'd love to hear a valid reason as to why Kidd is allowed to take these actions against members of RaGEZONE when this has been going on throughout this site for years, though I know I am not entitled to it. This is mainly here for everyone who was defending Kidd to realize why they are wrong.
It needs to be survival of the fittest, just like every other development section here. So what if someone takes your ideas? If someone does your idea better than you do, so be it. Learn to improve yourself to beat them. If you can't, move on and find a better idea. People have stolen a lot of my ideas over the years and I have learned from that and moved on, done things that are even better.
Please, don't comment if you can't reply with a maturely structured post. Getting tired of the "OMG HE IS SO BAD WTF" and "STFU UR WRONG LOL" shenanigans.