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16th November, 2003 at 11:12:39 -

http://www.thegiantstore.com/product.asp?3=224

Take a look at this. All these games are FREEWARE, yet the CD is retailing at ten dollars in shops and online. There must be over 100 freeware games on there, and all are being sold for some unscrupulous price. Add to the fact that I only have MMF 1.5 Standard, and can't legally sell any games without putting a Fueled By Fusion logo on.

The screenshot with the link also states that the CD contents are copyrighted to Next Step Publishing. Surely this is illegal too.

I've seen my Smidgets games, Gunner 3, Factor X, all being sold without any one of us getting any cuts of the profits.

I'm very unhappy about all this...even though your games may be on it and they're spread around. What are your opinions? And can Clickteam do anything about this?

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:15:39 -

Technically, they can get away with it, it's called a reproduction fee. While realistically, that is only supposed to be a dollar or two.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:34:54 -

you're not paying for the software, you're paying for the CD its on.

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16th November, 2003 at 11:37:07 -

What the f***? I wonder if you could sue?

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:40:04 -

I'm pretty sure they can't be doing that without getting permission from the game's creators.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:40:25 -

nope, not unless they violate a law, however if they are claiming that they made those games, then that is definately illegal.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:43:11 -

What, so some w***er can come online, download your game, put it on a CD and sell it? That sucks.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:45:45 -

Yep, I hope those wankers stop wanking their wanks.

 
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No, that's the problem with the Freeware liscense. The Game can be distributed in any manner by anybody, however the copyrights and such are still with the owner. It sucks, but if you didn't want it on there I think they would have to take it off.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:58:19 -

Heres what Jeff Vance said:

I will ask our lawyers but we can only bother them about the Fueled by Fusion logo on the outside of the CD. We do not know who said Yes or No to being on the CD.

Everyone who has a game on the CD needs to write to them and complain and "threaten" legal action if their game is not removed from the CD.


 
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16th November, 2003 at 11:58:43 -

Wait, you can sware now?

 
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16th November, 2003 at 12:00:16 -

They can, I believe, charge a small reproduction fee for the price of the medium that the software is stored on. $9.99 is clearly ridiculous.

 
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16th November, 2003 at 12:01:03 -

Circy if you win a trial then can I have a big bag of cash?

 
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16th November, 2003 at 12:02:09 -

(Also, they didn't put any of mine on there so of course I'm not happy with it.) <¦-)

 
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16th November, 2003 at 12:13:51 -

I highly doubt a klikker can afford a lawyer

 
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