NEW TSR LEGAL THREAT!

[hauntedutah]

as requested

He boasts about "beyond the law" and hiding behind Asian hosts to thwart
our attempts.

Thwart... makes it sound so epic amirite! 

[justso]

Yet it has been confirmed by EA
that the EULA listed is limited to the game software, and there exists a
separate EULA that applies to our business model:

Does this mean that there are parts of the game software that you can put up on non-commercial sites, as there is a separate (non existent) one that deals with custom content.  I don't think EA would be agreeing with that any time soon.

[minionsRmine]

Well, I guess Thomas does read the dictionary. We know what the word of that day was (miscreant), so what's the word for today, Thomas? Here, Thomas, maybe I can help you.

How about 'reprobate'. Look it up in the dictionary and you might find you share a similarity with that word.

[lewisb]

I usually don't like to call people "fools", but this letter has made me lulz so loud, I had to call Thomass a fool in my signature.

Thanks for inspiring me to write a signature, Thomass (dumbass).

Hey, I want proof of this new, separate, EULA that's made just for your "business model".  Is it from the legal department of EA? NO!

Sounds like a letter full of WAH WAH, telling what someone has done to you. (points and lulz)

Goodness!  Loved the response Paleoanth!

[neriana]

Thomas is so cute, he loves to amuse us.

Disillusioned miscreants. Hm. Thomas, either you don't know English very well, or your Freudian slips are catching up with you.

dis·il·lu·sion   
tr.v.   dis·il·lu·sioned, dis·il·lu·sion·ing, dis·il·lu·sions
To free or deprive of illusion.

Why yes, we are disillusioned, how kind of you to notice!

Also, an ARMY! Ooh, can we haz ranks?

[sidhe]

Actually I think the most significant aspect of Thoma's letter is the inference that this business practice is approved by EA Games.

(I am hoping he just misspoke himself when he said "business model", which would make no sense since a business model is just a strategy plan and has no legal relevance at all.)

Secondly, pay sites actually break the law when they extract a game file, alter it, then redistribute that file for profit. But if Maxis is actually going to give up their own claim to copyright then this becomes a financial free for all.

Essentially that means that I can manufacture and mass distribute Sims Custom Content on the shelf right next to their game. Since this is a multi-billion dollar opportunity I wrote them a letter asking them to clarify their position on the matter prior to beginning production. If they are giving TSR and all other creators carte blanche with the copyright...then everyone should be selling those discs at retail stores. Actually, the custom content could potentially make more money than the game.

But I want to see it in writing. If I do not receive and answer within 30 days I will send the next letter Certified mail.

Either they release copyrights and their fan sites become direct competition, or they retain copyright and pay sites are illegal.

[bmyall]

It makes one wonder what sort of " attempts" have been thwarted. Would these be the same sort of hacking "attempts" that Buggy and MTS2 have suffered? or are they more basic "attempts" like say... thievery.

Shakeshaft is a thief and Thomass is a haxxor

[Eskimo Pie]

That letter confuses me? How can he claim copy right on EA products?  If they are so concerned about their stuff being passed around they should tell EA o shut down the exchange then. I downloaded a house from there the other day full of cashcrafts stuff. I did not know it because not all cc is listed until you open it with clean installer.

[Tetsuo]

Dear Sir or Madam Thomas Isaksson is such a pompous ass.

[narlakins]

Well Thoma$$... maybe this would be a more appropriate thing to send... after all its a lot more impressive and scary than your 'legal' threat



*prepares for death and bashery*

[Paden]

That macro is awesome!!

[dusdeedawn]

Oh, how I lol'd. Oh, Tomass, your legal threats are so cuddly. You are, however, severely lacking in brains, thus causing you to fail - time and time again.
Let us not be distracted! Shakeshaft is still a thief!

p.s. Kitty = WIN.

[eifslitc]

Besides the pseudo intellectual legal lingo (or lack thereof) in that letter, do they even have law to support those claims?
I'm not too familiar with the creation of custom content, but what legal support is there for making profit off of it?
And how are they claiming that the statement about the EULA does not constitute distribution of paysite products when the only support for that claim is a forum post and not an actual rewrite of the EULA?
"Inb4anythingsynonymousto'lurkmoar'" My questions are serious in the sense that I expect a serious answer. Though, I did find the lack of tact in the letter laughable.

[Skoria_Bay]

Pes, I'm curious. Did they send it to you or think they were sending it to someone else? Just wondering as it as crazy as it sounds. Thomas did give me a good laugh for today. And now, we're an army! Hooray for us!

[Grotesque Sharonicle]

That macro is awesome really, I can't take my eyes off her.

But seriously, my fish can spell better than ThomA$$.
I mean, he has a 'business' or however he calls it, and still he manages to fail at writing his own 'business' name.Shame on you, SHAME!

Therefore, his name is perfectly written and spectacularously azmazingly purfuct. <-- see? I ken invent njuw wurds liek Thommers toooww  !

ETA: I don't want to know how Pescado got it. I can't stand loosing another idol