(no head feeling he has to answer every post I make while ignoring others shows his personal obsession)

its a business, nothing more, which is why I'm perplexed that some people still refer to TSR as a 'fan site' the only thing Tomass is a fan of is money.

in his own words he descibes TSR as a business (the  sentance is highlighted)

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3825/tomassip4.png

again he describes TSR as a business during a conversation in swedish which atwat tranlated into english (again I have highlighted the sentance in PSP)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4159/atwatqb1.png

I don't know where your getting I am harping on the EULA?? I have said OVER and OVER again the EULA is just the middle piece of the puzzle. Nohead is the one that brought up the EULA.

Since I am Swedish, I am the best person to answer this, even though I am not at all an expert. But I assure you we cannot do anything we want here, and that tsr is breaking Swedish laws. As for the actual procedures, I don't know.

NO MORE AD HOMINEM! That is the lazy man's (or woman's) way of making an point. It does not support the argument, it only supports making you look like a jerk. There is no point bothering to argue something if you won't bother to find out info to support your own side and have to rely on baseless insults. Give some reading to the other fallacies there as well please, if you're commiting any of them regularly (and you are) you might has well be spitting all over any points you make.

HMMMM well I think it matters to Cala since she has her own free site.

Meaning I'm right and you're wrong.

IF EA wants to they can easily find a way to make filesharing here stop. I don't think they need your help with it.

Gee, we're trying to keep people from getting ripped off! It sucks to know that people shell out hard earned cash for shit that looks like it came from a toxic waste site once you get it installed into your game, and it's not an inferior graphics card. Don't fuck with my cala! She knows a great deal more about the law and ethics than I think you ever learned in school. From what I've been told by someone who has made hacks and such, the .package file is part of the fucking game engine. As such, it is copyrighted and cannot in any part be sold. Guess what you have to have in order to make the pretty and not-so-pretty pixels work in your game? Why, that's riiiiiight, grasshopper, you have to have the .package file, which a company owns the rights to. They say that you can't earn bucks based off the sweat of their balls, which is what paysites are doing. Taking a copyrighted item known as the .package file, adding their own shit to it and trying to say they own the whole thing. I don't think so. The bulk of that file belongs to EA because the .package file format takes up a good 75% of it. Hmph! Makes me wonder if maybe the paysites oughtn't to be turning over $.75 per every $1.00 of content sold? Think the paysites would go for it? I doubt it, that's alot for them to swallow. So is the idea of expecting the unsuspecting simmer when being asked to pay for content that isn't up to company standard. In other words, if you think they have a right to ask for money, they can take their perfectly bleached dental work and apply it to my backside. If you need a translation, they can bite my ass!

You're fucked now unless you can come up with caselaw.  :lol:

See how good it was what I wrote - IGNORED! I win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, absolutely I think they are allowed to post things that are not officially true, and their posts are oftentimes influenced a great deal by their own opinions. This is why I didn't make specific reference to any of the other things we have heard, as I consider them equally rumour based and speculative.

The Maxoid's job is to keep things on the BBS running smoothly (well, try to, anyway), and not to be entirely up-to-date on legalities and legal matters. I don't consider a Maxoid post to be an authoratative or legally binding expression (as Maxoids can change from week to week, as can their opinions) I consider it a way to control the behaviour of posters on their boards. Like what we've heard from the other side, they are just opinions.

You should probably lay off the ad hominem as well in future posts.

Nohead, we've actually heard quite the oposite from other EA sources as well. As per usual, they haven't got all of their ducks in a row. Sounds more like that was posted to keep EULA fights from starting on the BBS.