Author Topic: A friendy message to those users who have Amade's Heavy Machine Gun  (Read 4832 times)

seven posts!

not quite a new record but definitely worthy of a darwin award

Wat Pat said, lol Bushi.

The new version will detect if you have Amade's version, and it will delete it along with all his add-ons delete the old add-on.

Whens the estimated release time?

Thank you for your cooperation, the official version will be released in the next few days. :D

The new version will detect if you have Amade's version, and it will delete it along with all his add-ons delete the old add-on.
this is a bad idea. Just put a popup in the game.

Ha, I remember MrMulch getting the addon from Amande when I was on the Cmen server.

EDIT: I know this may sound silly but maybe modelers and scripters need to use the Creative Commons License for their work. If they don't want it stolen that's fine but they need SOME type of a copyright.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2010, 08:45:36 AM by TomTheGeek »

Ha, I remember MrMulch getting the addon from Amande when I was on the Cmen server.

EDIT: I know this may sound silly but maybe modelers and scripters need to use the Creative Commons License for their work. If they don't want it stolen that's fine but they need SOME type of a copyright.
A license and copyright are not the same thing. Everything you make is already copyrighted. A license sets up some conditions for other users to use your work so that they don't have to call you up and arrange for permission to mirror your mod every single time.

For example, if I recall the next rtb is licensed under a cc license that doesn't let you change the code and repackage it, among a few other things. So people don't need to ask, the answer is "no."

As for protecting your content on Blockland the only thing you can do is not let anyone see it. You could register it and take it to course if you really wanted to. Maybe if I showed a book I wrote to a publishing company and they printed it without my permission I would sue them. I could have made money off those books. But if someone steals pictures you drew or models you made that you did in your free time and shared with the public free of charge I wouldn't bother. Call them out on it and work with service owners (forum admins, moderators, file hosters, etc) to get it delisted. There isn't much else you can do or that would be worth doing.

Putting in automatic file deleters, etc and you're in trouble. As a mod maker you should be more responsible then to interfere with a users content without their permission and it's bullstuff like this that got the TBM crew in trouble. In their case content would just not load if it wasn't in the tbm folder. Locking content down like that just splits the community. If your mod is better people will use it anyway. Amade has offered to take his mod down, and while he is still a jackass for doing it in the first place you are still getting a better deal than most people who have their work stolen.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2010, 09:37:29 AM by Wedge »

-snip-

Alright, I'll dump the "add-on-deleting-idea". I'll just ignore incoming (which I feel will inevitably come) stupid rants when release day comes:

"OMFG, you stole it froma amade!!!11"

"this is amade's. :cool:"

"did you ask for amade for this?! >:3"

I'll continue making good stuff.


With the obvious effort you are putting into making sure everyone knows it was not originally Amade's, I think you'll be fine.

then why did you release it early if you didn't want it out?
there are easier ways to impress people.

then why did you release it early if you didn't want it out?
there are easier ways to impress people.

Wait what, are you talking about Amade or me?

both.

you give it to a select few early to raise self esteem.
and he gives it out to raise his.

its a stuff-storm of self satisfaction, and in the end its JUST another god damn gun addon for the barrel.

both.

you give it to a select few early to raise self esteem.
and he gives it out to raise his.

its a stuff-storm of self satisfaction, and in the end its JUST another god damn gun addon for the barrel.

Lol, about myself: I did not want self-esteem. Lmao  :cookieMonster:

I give it out to a selected few modders, who can provide valuable information about bugs and cranks about it. (Quite frankly, the modders I chose did really give valuable feedback, not just "OGM ITS SOO COOL" and give no bug reports or other useful info) IMO, self-esteem is for insecure people. I am not.

For self-esteem-whoring, ask Amade.

EDIT: You take it easy when judging people's actions. It'll help. Unlike Amade, which is a proven jackass.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2010, 11:21:08 AM by Jaydee »

Thank you for your cooperation, the official version will be released in the next few days. :D

Yay I thought the whole thing might be canceled

Will it mess mine up too since it's an old version of yours?