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Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Kirkisx, Aug 7, 2018.

  1. Kirkisx Tunare's Chosen Paladin

    if you as devs are cracking down on cheating.. can you please pursue copyrighted stuff.. i know p99 was around for so long but eventually you became affiliated with p99 im sure there was closed discussions about boundaries and such.. i am tired of hearing people taking something i pay for and offer for free
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  2. Laronk Augur

  3. Sagarmatha Augur

    You really need something else to worry about.
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  4. Kirkisx Tunare's Chosen Paladin

    Using something someone else has is copyrighted infringement.. the article you provided would mean dbg would cancel everquest..
  5. Kirkisx Tunare's Chosen Paladin

    I do worry about this.. if people stop paying for eq this game dies
  6. Cleaver Augur


    Every expansion pretty much renews the copyright for EQ. Copyright laws should be valid if the service/game is still provided by the copyright holder. Once they abandon the game it should revert to open source.
  7. Astral64 Augur

    Kill it with fire.
  8. Gnomereaper Augur

    Vanguard and even Classic EQ should have kits similar to Neverwinter Nights and other RPG's to allow people to build their own versions of the games and own servers. While the sales of those copies would allow the game to "live on" and still "produce revenue."

    Also, there's a Japanese MMO that had a single player version of it's MMO that did alright. It would be interesting if people or the company could build games out of Vangard and Everquest content.
  9. Sobmre Augur

    p99 sucks, live eq is much more fun
  10. IblisTheMage Augur

    I believe you actively have to defend your trademarks, or they go into public domain (Xerox -> to xerox)
  11. Waring_McMarrin Augur


    That one is different and I am pretty sure they did everything they could to defend it. The reason why is because the term xerox became generic and associated with the act of copying itself as much as the brand. The same could be said about search engines on the internet and googling something.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

    There is a nice Wiki article on the subject.
  12. I_Love_My_Bandwidth Mercslayer

    So, you believe if P99 is shut down those playing P99 will convert to paying subs on EQLive?

    If so, you are seriously misled.
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  13. Corwyhn Lionheart Guild Leader, Lions of the Heart

    While I understand your sentiment I don't think this will ever happen. Never played on P99 and never will, only accounts I play are All Access on the Live servers BUT if I was so bothered about P99 I would just go play on it. Like you I have no interest in hearing about it but I just tune it out.

    Besides which talking about it hear is really promoting it or was that the idea? :)
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  14. svann Augur

    Yes but TM is different than copyright.
  15. Benito EQ player since 2001.

    I believe Daybreak still enforces their rights over Titanium Edition otherwise P99 would offer their own direct download. So it is a nice bit of legal finesse (i.e. leased-land property).

    I am also pretty sure P99 forces users to download malware (not open source) which will limit any following in addition to the hassle of obtaining Titanium discs.

    Basically P99 management wants you to trust them about their detection software:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/project199...ject_1999_dsetupdll_scans_your_open_programs/