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[ahecht]

Some screenshots:

[Hyperion]

I just checked the DVD, and there is no Copy Protection on the disk.

My take on the situation is that the PM's don't want us to copy and sell the disk for profit. That's obvious, otherwise they wouldn't have put the copyright tag on it. But, since the disk was free to begin with, copying it and distributing it to fellow beekeepers who were unable to get one in the first place is in the spirit of the game. People who played along with us deserve to have the disk.

My offer still stands, but depending on the general opinion of unfiction, I won't start sending copies until the PM's give the all clear.

[pheoni]

T@2's are fun.

[Mazian]

[Avery1415]

[skilletaudio]

The guy at the chicago thing explicitly invited us to "share this with your friends" who couldnt be here, tho?

[Mazian]

[Mazian]

[ahecht]

Every CD and DVD has the mirror section with text on the inside ring, which usually identifies the manufacturer of the disc, the company that did the pressing, or, on most modern software, the name of the program on the disc. DVDs also have a barcode that gives the drive information about the type of disk (but the barcodes are often used for other purposes, such as the old Circuit City DivX disposable DVDs).

[skilletaudio]

I'm not really making the case for pirating anything.

But they way the guy worded it at the training session seemed strange. I just wanted to bring that up for the sake of the argument.

[Mazian]

[skilletaudio]

Daaaaaaamn

[Reanimated]

Some of you people need to come down off of your idiot horses. I was told that we were free to distribute the disc, and so I'm ripping an ISO and will be putting up BitTorrent links later on. Some of you geniuses seem to have lost sight of the fact that all of these materials were distributed freely as a marketing tool for Halo 2.

ANYWAY, here are some more pics:

[Mazian]

Some of you didn't read the fact that I spoke with the PMs, or that the DVD has a copyright notice on it.

I'll be sending your screen-name to the PMs and Microsoft piracy group. If they don't chase you down, then I guess that's all the evidence you need that it's permissable.


But if you end up with a large fine slapped against you, please don't whine here.

[Reanimated]

Puhlease, I spoke with a PM at this event and was told exactly this: "distribute as you see fit". The copyright notice has to do with SELLING the discs for profit, which nobody is talking about doing at all.

So you do whatever you want there Captain Copyright Board Police... It's not gonna be any sweat off my balls.