Re: Cursed Armor 1.40 wolfzq thread missing?
Not true at all. Wolfzq is in China. Who knows what country the original creators are in. It's likely not even possible for them to pursue legal action. Even if they did, it would likely be beyond their financial means to do so. That's like saying if someone was raped and they didn't press charges, that means it's okay that they were raped.
Again no offense, it's human nature to be biased. But it seems like those who are defending this guy really have their rose colored glasses on. I mean, some of you are fishing for conspiracy theories rather than believe your sacred cow has done anything wrong.
No offense taken. You make a fair point about not being able to charge, but then again people are assuming what the RoL creator thinks to make a case. I have this faint memory from way back when on hongfire about someone saying the guy didn't mind that his sprites were being used by others, but I'm not gonna argue on third hand information to extrapolate someone's intentions. It's like everybody is using this person as a hand puppet, to say what they want. This person may or may not have a problem with the current situation, but my guess is that, if he's not dead yet, he's probably moved on with his life, and doesn't care much about someone using small pieces of a hobby project he made ages ago for fun, and if he doesn't care, I don't care. It's as good a possibility as any other, nobody even knows the guy.
Also I didn't say that wolfzq didn't do anything wrong, but Courage said there were legal issues, and there are only legal issues when there are legal actions ongoing, and there's no evidence that there is something illegal about cursed armor aside from someone saying that a guy, they never met or talked to, could probably be annoyed about something he might not even care about.
It's more of a matter of scope, what's the crime here?
Your rape example is reasonable in a moral context that considers rape a crime, which for example is not really the case in Pakistan, or most of India depending on caste. But they would cut your limbs if you steal an apple. Morality and legality are not the same thing, you're being just a tiny bit unfair here.
For one thing there's no law that says you can be charged for stealing something that is being given to you for free. So at best the crime here is plagiarism, which is a completely different beast than theft. But then again, who's been plagiarized here?
The character itself was not even an original creation back in RoL, and I really wonder if anyone asked Yuichiro Shinozaki what he thinks about this whole debacle. Google-fu FTW!
To top this off, as I've been saying this whole time, the amount of content, that is not original or properly commissioned, would still count as transformative under fair use. We would not be able to create new music otherwise, since all the notes are already taken. Despite what multinational powerhouses think about what they can own.
The real problem here is that we are talking bullshit about something minor on the basis of a past mistake that was actually bad, and conflating the two things as if they are one and the same, just because it's the same person doing both. Which is not a good behavior in general. I've done some dumb shit when I was a dumb kid, and you did too, everyone makes choices they eventually regret. If you deny it I find no problem in punching the denial out of you, but if you can admit what you did was wrong, and prove you want to better yourself by doing things properly, my moral code tells me to give you a second chance. Just to be clear, a second chance doesn't mean trust.
Seen people talk about shady behavior on patreon, and to them I say that everybody is being shady on patreon lately. Most projects have slowed down so much their cardio rate could fool death itself. I could make a list but I don't want to set the world on fire since it would include many "beloved" developers too. At the very least wolfzq is giving something other than promises for the money he gets.
what the aurthor of cursed armor did over at LL is inexcusable! were we suppose to ignore that? especially when money was involved?
You make it sound like he killed someone, it's just copyright for fuck's sake, at worst you get a fine. I don't want you to ignore anything, on the contrary, I want you to remember more. Remember that this forum is filled with pirates, sharing for free or profit stuff that someone is actually trying to sell. I want you to remember that every link shared here is potentially costing money to someone. Remember that the person you are trying to paint as a child eating monster is not really that different than the rest of us.
As some random dude once said "let him who is without sin cast the first stone"!
I'm gonna respectfully disagree with an admin's decision, but I think all this animosity is unnecessary, and frankly I have not much respect for someone going after a person's livelihood based on just a grudge, since as far as I know, not a single person on loverslab lost a dime on this. The only thing that got hurt here is someone's ego.
