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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:maddog#best,com">maddog#best,com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:31:02 -0700 (PDT)</LI>
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Sellers, Michael wrote:
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> I strongly suspect there are a variety of more subtle/less draconian (and at
> least as effective) solutions to this "problem" of people buying and selling
> in-game assets on EBay. It will be interesting to see how this policy plays
> out however, and whether Sony has any actual legal legs to stand on in
> trying to remove online auction sites from the picture.
>
Yes, Mike there are better solutions.
As for the IP issue, this has to be the weakest argument
that I have ever heard. No property ever
gets transferred or transformed. There is no reverse engineering,
no derivative works, no copying and reselling. It is just
items in a large database.
It's like saying everyone can buy the same book, but people have access
to only certain pages (items). Accessing the pages is an IP violation.
Well I have been wrong before on IP issues, but this one really
baffles me. Looks like TSR again, in a different body.
frank
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00212" HREF="msg00212.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00176" HREF="msg00176.html">[MUD-Dev] DGD Description</A></strong>,
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