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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 13:57:45 GMT -5
Just a thought, could this 'Game' have been put up as a way to trap Shadow Board people into revealing their ip addresses so they can get banned from the game? There are much easier ways of doing this. For example, someone could embed an image into a post which tracks IPs that fetch it (the image is hosted elsewhere, just referenced in the post). |
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Post by jkarr on Feb 22, 2016 14:20:22 GMT -5
Just a thought, could this 'Game' have been put up as a way to trap Shadow Board people into revealing their ip addresses so they can get banned from the game? very sloppy way of doing that. no way to say who is which poster (or lurker) and whether or not they are public arm enemy #1 or just an occasional board visitor who tried the game theyd be stuck using 'playing another mud' as a bannable offense which would be hilarious for the rest of tmc to see |
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Post by jjhardy on Feb 22, 2016 14:28:36 GMT -5
It's just strange that he deleted everything.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 14:54:50 GMT -5
It's just strange that he deleted everything. I'll agree with that. Even if he didn't want to be responsible for hosting it in any form, I'm surprised he didn't share it in some way so that others could. |
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Post by themountaingoat on Feb 22, 2016 14:56:09 GMT -5
i just miss playing my flying sparkling dildo mul psionicist
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Post by jonsmith on Feb 22, 2016 15:03:50 GMT -5
Just a thought, could this 'Game' have been put up as a way to trap Shadow Board people into revealing their ip addresses so they can get banned from the game? It's possible, but if you joined it without a proxy... Well that's your own damn fault. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 16:05:45 GMT -5
Despite the ethical complications of IP ownership, etc, a new game world based on the old arm code would be an interesting thing to see.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Feb 22, 2016 16:57:50 GMT -5
Despite the ethical complications of IP ownership, etc, a new game world based on the old arm code would be an interesting thing to see. Could they really do anything about such a thing though? What with Diku licensing and Darksun ripoff stuff? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 17:46:30 GMT -5
Someone could file a civil suit and take them to court saying it's stolen code, but they'd have difficulty proving damages since it's a free game (and I'm no lawyer so I have no idea). In the scenario I'm suggesting, it'd be a completely different game world so there'd be no intellectual property involved other ARMs code. It'd be like Arm Reborn except instead of a whole mud engine to go with the new world, it'd just be a new world built on the old code.
I'm not suggesting someone use Arms code without permission. I am suggesting that a whole new and different game world, built on the same code, would be interesting to see.
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Post by tektolnes on Feb 22, 2016 17:50:33 GMT -5
I feel like Armageddon would have to be careful about throwing out law suits over intellectual theft since, ya know, Dark Sun...
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