Quote: |
Destineer Studios has initiated legal action against the www.closecombatseries.net website and owner. According to the US Copyright Laws, this website is infringing the rights of Destineer Studios property. The court order given from the California Supreme Court Copyright Division states that this site must cease and desist all transmissions of files related to Close Combat. (scans of the documents will be available for everyone tomorrow) This injunction will stay in place until the litigation is complete. Upon completion we will update this site on whether or not we have won the case. The first court date will commence on June 18th at the California Supreme Court. This initial hearing will determine whether or not all the CCS logs should be turned over to legal officials. Next court date will be issued then. CCS is being represented Pro Bono by two Attorneys specializing in defeating these claims. Our immediate action to get the site back up and running is to host the files outside of North America. This is being worked on now. You may be asking... Why in California? The California Supreme Court has the best track record for winning these types of cases. The California Supreme Court's interpretation of the Digital Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) leaves no room for the small guys to win. Why is this just happening now and not years ago? Destineer knew about CCS when they aquired the rights to the Close Combat games. Only recently we have stepped up our money raising campaigns, specifically our advertisements which possibly made us a higher priority target. A by the book legal interpretation of this would say that I (CCS Owner) am making money from the Close Combat name. A similair situation happened about four years ago with the CC5 Okinawa Stand Alone download. The website was forced to close. I honestly don't know the real motives behind this, lets wait and see. Is'nt CCS hosted in Canada? Yes it is. Canadian Copyright laws and the authorities that enforce them work in conjuction with the United States. The two countries have a long record of helping each other out... unfortunately. Why are the forums down also, why not just the files? It was reccomended that everything be shut down until a ruling whether or not the logs be turned over to the courts. I downloaded a ton of modifications for Close Combat, is that in the logs? Yes, all your actions on the CCS site are logged and are now held by the attorneys for safe keeping. If they trace my IP on the logs to what I downloaded what will happen? Currently anyone outside of North America is probably safe. Everyone else must wait and see. It is very unlikely they will go after everyone since theres too many. Is this an April Fools joke? No. The papers were served on March 26th, 2008. More to follow as the situation develops... |
mooxe wrote: |
As some guessed... It was an April fools joke! |
Quote: |
it was the empircal evidence for me that i am addicted to CC5 only because CCS is here Smile |
mooxe wrote: |
In all honesty though, something like this happening is theoretically very possible |
CSO_Talorgan wrote: | ||
Theoretically maybe, but sensible? Modding is a large part of Close Combat's following. Would the games be re-released without that following? What do the re-releases do to the value of the game and its rights? ... unless of course you also hold the rights to, say, Theatre of War, and are trying to enforce mass conversion for an even bigger profit. |
CSO_Talorgan wrote: | ||
Theoretically maybe, but sensible? Modding is a large part of Close Combat's following. Would the games be re-released without that following? What do the re-releases do to the value of the game and its rights? ... unless of course you also hold the rights to, say, Theatre of War, and are trying to enforce mass conversion for an even bigger profit. |
Quote: |
I name that as tolerated ...
Joke was, now they starting to complain about that |
output generated using printer-friendly topic mod. All times are GMT