elton said:
Sorry, but the 'intent' of a message is a particularly subjective area and means nothing.
I stick with my original points regardless of how unpopular that makes me.
Anyway enough said.
Of course i can only agree. If i say
'free to mod' then i must not ask for what reasons it was done afterwards. Because thats irrelevant. Free to mod means free to mod period. Period. There is absolutely nothing missunderstandable about this statement. It translates unmissunderstandably into
'everyone can mod it at any time', and not into
'...but only if i like the reason'. So to come along later saying
"but i dont like the reason why it was modded" is BS. Its too late then,...
Asides from that i can only shake my head at this whole 'authorized/unauthorized modding' shit anyway. To be honest, it makes me sick by now! After all, nobody had
any rights on that stuff to begin with!!! It really seems like some are missing to realize the simple fact that the material is
not theirs anyway and that they took it
illegally for their own purposes as well
although the original authors have explicitely copyrighted it and thereby
explicitely forbidden every unauthorized use of it!
In other words, they didnt give shit for the
actual owners rights either, although these people do actually really
HAVE some rights on that stuff. And yet there is an endless whining-fest whenever someone has the NERVE to do the same as they are doing all the time themselves, namely taking something that isnt theirs whatsoever and using it to make and publish their own thing. I mean 90% of all these unauthorizedly copied tables do not even include ONE BIT of credits to the original authors. Nobody gives a flippin shit for the rights, whishes, copyrights, credits of the
ACTUAL authors of that stuff, but at the same time whenever someone takes their entirely illegaly done work the big drama immediately begins, and the
'wheres my credit' and
'its my work' (whoms work?) and
'you had no right' bullshit doesnt seem to stop anymore.
(This all inevitably reminds me of 'The United States'. First they took (to avoid saying STEAL) the land from the Indians without
any scruples whtasoever, forced the Indians into the stoney deserts and kept the good land for themselves to exploit it, (gold, silver, oil, etc.), but now everyone who has the NERVE to lay their hands on 'their' land gets an atomic bomb delivered to their door. To take it illegally by using even the most fucked up and disgusting means possible was perfectly O.K., but everyone who would try the same deserves to die. (Of course.))
I mean how can somebodies mind really be THAT screwed up? How can someone seriously have SUCH an attitude? If i go into the store and steal a bottle of wine, do i have the right to whine if somebody else steals it from me? Do i have the right to demand that somebody protects me and my deed and expect the one who stole it from me to get punished?
When i have stolen the fuckin bottle myself? I really dont think so, so some people should really get a clue what is actually going on here and what they are actually doing before they expect 'rights' (and protection thereof) for things that they took entirely illegally without giving
shit for the rights of those who actually own that stuff (and explicitely copyrighted it against unauthorized use!),...
And before somebody begins now; please spare me with that 'honor amongst thieves' shit because that is exactly THAT in my opinion. Namely shit-de-luxe and nothing else! Because its sole purpose is only to comfortably circumvent the fact that noone has actually ANY rights at that stuff whatsoever, thus making it ridiculous beyond every imagination to even THINK about granting anyone 'rights' that they neither have nor deserve due to their own (illegal) actions. Thats bullshit-de-luxe,...
(And no, im not saying to have these tables was a bad thing. Its great to be able to play them and i appreciate the work of those who make them. But thats not my point. The thing is i only realize that someone who doesnt have any rights on something to begin with cannot come along and demand rights for themselves when they ignored the rights of the
actual owners themselves as well. Just think about it,...)