All the C&D's would be american under american copyright law generally.
Depending on the country you live in/host from you may or may not have to worry about them. Some countries completely ignore these laws where others take them more seriously.
All the C&D's would be american under american copyright law generally.
Depending on the country you live in/host from you may or may not have to worry about them. Some countries completely ignore these laws where others take them more seriously.
how about this,
what if the server owner is in us but the host is in other country?
will that make me a bit more secure?
I wouldn't worry as long as you aren't profiting from it, and nothing is copyrighted, and since the client it's self is distributed freely and you haven't stolen a server if you design it yourself, it's completely border line legal, give or take a few circumstances.
but if you design that is illegal, lets say if you edit the client.
I wouldn't worry as long as you aren't profiting from it, and nothing is copyrighted, and since the client it's self is distributed freely and you haven't stolen a server if you design it yourself, it's completely border line legal, give or take a few circumstances.
Redistributing their client is illegal. You have to either distribute no client or be up to date to actually make everything completely legal.
NetDragon Websoft has an office in Diamond Bar, CA, USA. That's where Conquer Online's servers are. The business is an official USA business, and thus they have not only universal rights rights to their material, but American registered copyrights. How they sue you depends on the case. If you're using a TQ Binary and their client, it could be quite the threat. If you're just using their client, they have the right to request that you stop from doing so. All of the above mentioned by other members are correct. It's not "how" they sue you, but for what reasons.
NetDragon Websoft has an office in Diamond Bar, CA, USA. That's where Conquer Online's servers are. The business is an official USA business, and thus they have not only universal rights rights to their material, but American registered copyrights. How they sue you depends on the case. If you're using a TQ Binary and their client, it could be quite the threat. If you're just using their client, they have the right to request that you stop from doing so. All of the above mentioned by other members are correct. It's not "how" they sue you, but for what reasons.
Actually sharing the official client at all is technically illegal.
Distributing ANY files from the client = illegal and can get you in trouble. The only legal way of handling it is tell players to download the client from the official tq servers and you just release a loader so players can connect to your server without distributing any of tq's files (modified or not)
i think the only resion they don't bother suing coz they know they will lose more money buy trying to sue someone then they will get.
Generally speaking they are trying to scare you into shutting down your server. They start with (many) C&D's to both you and your server host to try to bully them into shutting down. It VERY rarely goes beyond that (to the point I'd never even heard about it until this thread) but then they would advance it towards lawsuits.
Even at lawsuit stage they are just forcing you legally to either stop the server or bankrupt yourself trying to fight the charges (both as a project and as a person because it can cost tens of thousands of dollars even for a fairly small case to defend yourself) which as a result shuts it down nice and quick.
