PheonixRising opened this issue on Apr 06, 2003 ยท 44 posts
fauve posted Sun, 06 April 2003 at 1:45 PM
No one can argue that Anton (and DAZ) had a legitimate grievance in this situation, but I don't agree with the idea that a long-term, contributing forum member who's never broken copyright rules before, and who may have done so this time mistakenly and not intentionally, should be hauled over the coals in just the same way as every warez kiddie who puts the original V3 High Res maps on Kazaa for his pals to download. Valentin has acknowledged his misuse of the V3 map, withdrawn the Joelle item and apologized sincerely. All of that could have been accomplished without humiliating him publically. Without a doubt DAZ was the injured party here, but these bloodthirsty, zero-tolerance public floggings are costing the company a lot of my good opinion, for what that's worth.