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From: Matthew Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:02:31 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 maddog@best.com wrote:
> Sellers, Michael wrote:
> >
> > I strongly suspect there are a variety of more subtle/less draconian (and at
> > least as effective) solutions to this "problem" of people buying and selling
> > in-game assets on EBay. It will be interesting to see how this policy plays
> > out however, and whether Sony has any actual legal legs to stand on in
> > trying to remove online auction sites from the picture.
> >
>
> Yes, Mike there are better solutions.
>
> As for the IP issue, this has to be the weakest argument
> that I have ever heard. No property ever
> gets transferred or transformed. There is no reverse engineering,
> no derivative works, no copying and reselling. It is just
> items in a large database.
> It's like saying everyone can buy the same book, but people have access
> to only certain pages (items). Accessing the pages is an IP violation.
> Well I have been wrong before on IP issues, but this one really
> baffles me. Looks like TSR again, in a different body.
Yes, and if you buy the book under those terms, then you've bought the
book under those terms. If you don't like the terms, don't buy the book.
I mean, like you say, they are items in a database. If I go to a
data-mining website and pay for some service, I certainly don't have any
right to anything outside what I explicitly paid for, at least legally.
Just because it's in the same database doesn't mean you deserve access to
it.
--matt
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