Oh yeah, I got the message, thanks John. I don't have to say to people just how "pleased" I am to see yet another leech trying to make a buck on other people's work. Very bad timing for him I would say, considering recent comments made by myself here recently.
This is not acceptable, and I don't care if you as a author have a table there or not, everyone should send a email. I certainly did (make sure contact is in the subject line, and remove the "X" in the names of the email addy.)
I sent a copy of my email to John, but maybe if other people want, they can use this as well, especially for the next time this will happen (and it will)
SUBJECT LINE: Customer Unauthorized distribution of pinball product
TO:
[email protected]
CC:
[email protected]
It has come to my attention that you are offering downloads of Visual Pinball products without permission, including my tables. I have full copyright control of these tables, and it is noted as such in the distribution file, as well as the script that permission is not given to distribute the table without my express written permission. The other authors that I have talked too already also feel the same way.
The only person that has the right to do this is me, and that is also noted in the legal statement.
I would very strongly suggest that you remove my products, The game Trigon, and any other products that I have created, immediately, or I will pursue the matter legally.
You did not ask for permission in the first place, and it appears you are trying to sell it on ebay, or something at least. None of the Visual Pinball games are to be sold at the very least, and most of us would like to be asked at least. The entire community is getting very tired of people trying to make money off of our work, and we have all agreed that any future infingments will be persued.
We are not companies, just a bunch of people that love the game enough to spend very large amounts of our time creating them. We don't sell them, we don't ask for anything other than people enjoy them. But this and other incidents just means that more and more of us are leaving, or not producing tables. Why should we do all the work, out of love, just to see someone else try and make a buck?
Remove the tables, and don't offer them as collections or for sell. We will enforce our rights then. I certainly will with mine, and I know that quite a few other authors will as well. The tables are available for free, but that was what everyone in my community agreed to, just for updates if anything else.
I expect to see those tables removed shortly. I can understand that you are a website, and traffic is important and all, but there's a way to do things, and it's not this way.
Paul Sanderson