How is SOM different (or not different) from what people do with PC games (mods)

[Holy_Diver]

Mick, you're the only person I know who can be shown overwhelming evidence and still deny reality- it's like a super power. Ever think of putting on a super hero disguise and fighting crime? Even if the bad guys shot you, you could just insist they hadn't and the bullet holes would disappear. ‎ 

You know this is really unsettling. I am not sure I can carry on this discussion.

My work in translating games is related to this topic from a legal standpoint, and I've talked about it to some people who are knowledgeable on copyright precedent. Translation patches generally contain no copyrighted work, but game companies still issues cease and desist orders to translating teams occasionally.

That's because you are copying the game. The text of the game. And if not in patch form you are literally copying the game. You don't seem to understand that copyright exists to forbid forgeries and straight up copies of a product.

Software licenses tell you how you can use a piece of software. The default is you can do anything you can think of with the software.

SoM's agreement clearly says that From maintains ownership of the software (which includes game.exe).

It doesn't say that. You own it. You bought it. It's on your computer. It says you can't copy it. The files here https://svn.\<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/ are a breech of copyright. The disassembly provisions exist so that you can't make SOM_RUN work without the CD being inserted.

What you are saying is Microsoft owns every .doc file on the planet. You are not thinking things through. You are too arrogant. And you seem to have a paranoid conception of reality where companies like From that produce Sword of Moonlight King's Field Making Tools are predatory and deceptive in doing so. Or would be so twisted as you seem to project as to litigate against someone making a King's Field game with a King's Field Making Tool. It's absurd to even have this conversation. It's insulting to From', to humanity, to yourself included. It's really sick and twisted and unsettling and a waste of time. A true perversion if there ever was one. ‎ 

I employ you to lighten up. Whether you can appreciate it or not, you are a dark blemish on the body of the world. It isn't helping. And it's going to make SOM look bad if we keep having people who will stop at nothing to utter such unsettling things hanging on.


PS: I am deploying such strong language to highlight the severity of the charges here. I could care less. My only problem is the image problem this will make for the SOM community. We don't need morose parties hanging around. I am a happy-go-lucky guy. I can't tolerate this dark negativity. It ills me to the core.