I've been following this for about 2 days now and I feel like I missed a lot. I have a few questions so I can understand the rights of community made content and the current state of this situation.
1.) So I could take content made by another person, then turn around and give people the option to pay for a... I'm sorry, DONATE for a premium account and limit free users to the point where it wouldn't be worth while to play as a free user. And as long as I'm not violating the EULA of the game I am hosting the server on, there is very little the person I "stole" the content from could do?
2.) If I did "steal" the content and the person asked me to remove it and I just simple don't replay, what could they really do about it? Pay a lawyer to fight for their rights for free content they posted up for all to us. That sounds like a net lose. Are content creators protected by the site they upload their work to?
3.) What has been the outcome of this situation? Has everyone who is claiming they had there content stolen seen it removed from their server? And the money that has already been made by A3L, has any of it been giving to the content creator or at the very least returned to the donators?
I feel like I have more questions but I'm not sure what they are at this time.
One thing I have been annoyed with is this word DONATE, used by many server owners. Google defines donate as "give (money or goods) for a good cause, for example to a charity." Google also defines purchase as "acquire (something) by paying for it; buy." The word donate is open to way to much interpretation. In my opinion we as people need to change the word donate to "giving money to a cause without an expectation of receiving something in return" For example, when you "donate" plasma, you're really selling it if you accept money in return.<---- IN MY OPINION!! Now-a-days it's almost like purchase and donate can mean the same thing.
