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May. 21st, 2009 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
majutsukaiSome days, I love Square-Enix.
Some days, though, I think they need to die in a fire.
What the fuck, Square. What the FUCK.
I... was even considering buying CT:DS, as it happens. But now, I'm gonna need to take a long hard think about my priorities with respect to this company. This behavior is nothing less than ludicrous, and if it's all for the protection of their financial success from such a... frankly imaginary assault, then I frankly want no part in said financial success.
Their rationale is that the makers of CT:CE intended to encourage the illegal download of ROM images (I think their wording was that they "[intended] to instruct others how to circumvent [their] copy protection"), which is grade A horseshit. As is tradition in the modding community, they never encouraged the illegal download of ROMs, and in fact adamantly encourage others not to partake if they do not own a legal copy of the game. (And CT doesn't even have copy protection.) And the use of ROM images as a backup copy of games one legally owns has a history of being upheld in court as an example of fair use. Legally? They might be able to win this thing, if they had the money to take it to court.
But that's just it:
"We do not accept the validity of Square Enix's claims, nor the legal rationale underpinning their position. Nonetheless, we are complying with their demands so as to avoid the expenses and burdens of litigation, because, frankly, they can afford a frivolous lawsuit more than we can."
Realistically? I don't think I can see myself opting out of a couple of their future releases, so I know this is all going to fall flat in a few months, but... argh. I just want to stew for a while. I can't believe the sorts of things people can get away with by throwing money around.
And that, really, is the saddest part, if you ask me. Square Enix gets to throw a spoiled hissy fit like this, they get to play Goliath to the fan community's David, and at the end of the day? People still want what they're marketing. I'm not even an exception. That's the worst part.
/sigh
Some days, though, I think they need to die in a fire.
What the fuck, Square. What the FUCK.
I... was even considering buying CT:DS, as it happens. But now, I'm gonna need to take a long hard think about my priorities with respect to this company. This behavior is nothing less than ludicrous, and if it's all for the protection of their financial success from such a... frankly imaginary assault, then I frankly want no part in said financial success.
Their rationale is that the makers of CT:CE intended to encourage the illegal download of ROM images (I think their wording was that they "[intended] to instruct others how to circumvent [their] copy protection"), which is grade A horseshit. As is tradition in the modding community, they never encouraged the illegal download of ROMs, and in fact adamantly encourage others not to partake if they do not own a legal copy of the game. (And CT doesn't even have copy protection.) And the use of ROM images as a backup copy of games one legally owns has a history of being upheld in court as an example of fair use. Legally? They might be able to win this thing, if they had the money to take it to court.
But that's just it:
"We do not accept the validity of Square Enix's claims, nor the legal rationale underpinning their position. Nonetheless, we are complying with their demands so as to avoid the expenses and burdens of litigation, because, frankly, they can afford a frivolous lawsuit more than we can."
Realistically? I don't think I can see myself opting out of a couple of their future releases, so I know this is all going to fall flat in a few months, but... argh. I just want to stew for a while. I can't believe the sorts of things people can get away with by throwing money around.
And that, really, is the saddest part, if you ask me. Square Enix gets to throw a spoiled hissy fit like this, they get to play Goliath to the fan community's David, and at the end of the day? People still want what they're marketing. I'm not even an exception. That's the worst part.
/sigh
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Date: 2009-05-24 03:48 am (UTC)I already have very little interest in any of their current or to be released works, and with tihs...yeah. I won't be making -any- effort to get ANYMORE of their games, unless it's something I feel that will be epic. (Which currently, is none of their up-coming stuff.)