11-05-2009, 01:03 PM
Ah, the whinyness of companies and their legal teams. Though the only legal instance of issuing a cease and desist letter is if someone is trying to profit off of material that is or is based on a company's creation. Unless that Sims site was a subscriber site (which unfortunately a lot of them are becoming) then the cease and desist letter would be nonvalid. A lot of sites and developers of rom edits don't realize that unless you're profiting from your creations using their designs, a cease and desist letter is basically a moot point. Crimson Echoes was unjustly and stupidly shut down because Square got their undies in a knot because someone DARED make a fan game based on a POPULAR source. I'm glad Nintendo and Sega aren't such snobs, otherwise we wouldn't have a lot of awesome edited games because in most cases people are too stupid to actually contemplate the validity of a Cease and Desist. If TSR ever got one, it would basically be disregarded, as we're not trying to profit from the sprites or anything.
And as usual, I must place my closing statement of "EFF YOU SQUARE" in anything referring to Cease and Desists for what they did to Crimson Echoes.
And as usual, I must place my closing statement of "EFF YOU SQUARE" in anything referring to Cease and Desists for what they did to Crimson Echoes.