Why isn't maiet doing anything against Private servers?

[Rain]

I know i know, You probably think "Why is this kid even starting this, Does he hate the fact that he can work with the game?"

Thats entirely not true i like playing around with the gunz source matter of fact i just want information on this, The game is extremely old and i was just curious cause lets be honest. Maiet wasn't really smart on how they where running there game heck they ended up with one server lasting and thats in a place what we actually last expect it to last. But i'm sure they see private servers are doing spectacular and actually earning money and a really good profit from this.

They have the power to actually do something about this i mean, The logo, The art, The source everything should be Copyrighted or trademarked. So what keeps them from doing anything against private servers.

The funny part is they actually did something against a gunz 2 private server, But thats doing so bad right that i can't even imagine why they even bothered with the gunz 2 private server cause man that game sucks..

Does anyone have anything like you know a clue?

[MentaL]

[canerdebeest]

There are so many private servers out there. If Maiet would have done something a bit earlier there wouldn't be as much private servers and leaked files.
But Maiet don't really care about GunZ the duel anymore. But if they would make they're own server again with Anti - lead and loads of cool stuff the Private servers would die really fast. But i'm really happy that gunz is still around. I play it almost every day

[Nayr438]

To my knowledge only 3 servers have been threatened by Maiet. Brittle Bullet, Trinity Entertainment, and I believe it was Euro ( I may be wrong here).

Unfortunately Maiet is a Korean Game company which already limits their DMCA Policy over the rest of the countries.
Most servers are hosted in non DMCA compliant Countries/Territories where copyright does not matter.
There are so many, that it is just a waste of time.
Costly, Especially for cross country lawsuits.

GunZ 2 has a partnership with steam, including shared copyright which gives them more control of out of country servers. Even with the partnership, eventually the threats will pass.

Also Copyright / DMCA varies by country. Depending on where the files are being hosted/held, will determine the copyright limitations and lawsuits.

[wesman2232]

Please enlighten me on which "GunZ 2 Private Server" they did anything with. The only GunZ 2 server that was ever publicly available was Daemons Ring GunZ 2, which I started and took down of my own accord. MAIET had nothing to do with it. DarkGunZ I believe was trying to start a GunZ 2 server but couldn't get it working.

[Lib]

Why should maiet stop gunz private servers... If they shutdown them all, gunz the duel is dead. Actually private servers are the only one who still care about the game. Maiet already lost it in 2007. They promised to much but never made or alteast fixxed them, Good example are shields. So in my opinion private servers are good thing, to promote the brand they builded up. "Gunz"

[MonkINC]

Maiet won't do anything because they can't backup their claims to sue anyone directly. if anyone it has to be the people leeches exploits their weak source. private servers are hosted by lechers nowadays most likely even of the lechers gets sued they can get away with it because they found it in public release end of story.

[Rain]

Please enlighten me on which "GunZ 2 Private Server" they did anything with. The only GunZ 2 server that was ever publicly available was Daemons Ring GunZ 2, which I started and took down of my own accord. MAIET had nothing to do with it. DarkGunZ I believe was trying to start a GunZ 2 server but couldn't get it working.

I Have no idea which server it was but somewhere on the old gunz 2 website / uk version a staff member did say something about "We already stopped one" and "we won't allow any private servers of the game" i'm not so sure though but why did you stop anyways?






Also if maiet can't do anything about it cause of "DMCA / Country stuff" Can people basically create the game modifie the source and start it with a new name? / make it there own. I wonder why nobody hasn't done this yet.

[flyffhelper]

the problem is that GunZ will dissapear some day developers are not more intrested in this project because its hard work for nothing, Its nice to have a income from a game that you never have created yourself and i agree you have to be punished for you're illegal acts but who cares MAIET didn't give a fuck about it they tried but didn't work out for them so how long is this game gone? I have seen some private servers dramatically decreasing players i will not mention which but if you look at the statics you will see numbers and will vanish slow.

[maxy2010]

might be a tactic used by maiet as they were already developing gunz2 so the spirot of gunz shoudnt die as it should be carry forward for gunZ 2...private servers has done alot of marketing for maiet..its simply business i think

[wesman2232]

I Have no idea which server it was but somewhere on the old gunz 2 website / uk version a staff member did say something about "We already stopped one" and "we won't allow any private servers of the game" i'm not so sure though but why did you stop anyways?






Also if maiet can't do anything about it cause of "DMCA / Country stuff" Can people basically create the game modifie the source and start it with a new name? / make it there own. I wonder why nobody hasn't done this yet.

The game and client itself was literally Alpha version. It lagged so bad that it wasn't much playable. We all thought it was the SSAO shaders. But because of the lag, nobody wanted to play it. So I took it down, no need to spend money on a VPS if it won't be played.

And because it's still under copyright. All of the games files are made and licensed under MAIET's name. If we literally tried that, you'd be shut down and possibly facing legal actions. It's the same reason why nobody has done it with GunZ 1 even though we have the source.