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jlbcke · 07-26-05, 04:42 PM

This is a tempest in a teapot. All these mods were published on the web without copyright restriction thus making them legally available for anyone to use as they choose including for profit.

If someone wants to protect their software from someone else using it for profit they need to invoke formal legal intellectual property protection before publishing it.

Morally, X1 should have acknowledged that these mods were not developed in-hourse (as someone reported they did). X1 should have been forthright in stating that this was a collection of previously published mods in the public domain.

SHIII users in general should be careful when talking about X1's morality. Why? SHIII is itself a game glorifying destroying ships, and murdering by drowning, and burning. That no people are depicted makes no difference: we all know the ships did not sail themselves.

I apologize to the SHIII community for sounding like a prude. I love the game and applaud its production. But the game itself does present questions that have plagued entertainment since before Aristotle wrote the Poetics i.e., entertainment is often about depicting violence.

Is it reasonable to chastise X1 morally when SHIII is itself morally questionable? I just raise the question.
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jlbcke Nub Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	X1 and SHIII Mods This is a tempest in a teapot. All these mods were published on the web without copyright restriction thus making them legally available for anyone to use as they choose including for profit. If someone wants to protect their software from someone else using it for profit they need to invoke formal legal intellectual property protection before publishing it. Morally, X1 should have acknowledged that these mods were not developed in-hourse (as someone reported they did). X1 should have been forthright in stating that this was a collection of previously published mods in the public domain. SHIII users in general should be careful when talking about X1's morality. Why? SHIII is itself a game glorifying destroying ships, and murdering by drowning, and burning. That no people are depicted makes no difference: we all know the ships did not sail themselves. I apologize to the SHIII community for sounding like a prude. I love the game and applaud its production. But the game itself does present questions that have plagued entertainment since before Aristotle wrote the Poetics i.e., entertainment is often about depicting violence. Is it reasonable to chastise X1 morally when SHIII is itself morally questionable? I just raise the question. [/url][/code][/b]