[Kazan]

The DMCA has been used to squash criticism before in difiance of the 1st ammendment, and the corporations that abuse it never go against anyone with the lawyers to get it in front of SCOTUS so that section od the DMCA could be nullified.

At first it appeared that GameSpy was abusing the DMCA, but what it was is thatt they didn'y only rely on the DMCA and just used it for additional clout (let their laywers who only care about money right the letter) and they had a justifiable reason to go after the man.  While going after his adviserories is a bit excessive, he did have it coming due to piracy software he had on his site and he had tried to extort a "consulting fee" from gamespy in the past.

[kasperl]

aha.

so you sent an angry email to gamespy for bascily nothing, practicly in the name of the SCP, while we were trying to get Gamepsy to host the SCP and FS2.

please tell me i misunderstood.

[Drew]

kasperal, Kaz did send an "apology" and received a freindly response from GS; i think our relations with GS are peachy for now...

you didnt misunderstand, your just a little behind on the descussion

[Kazan]

i did not send an _angry_ letter i sent a _concerned_ letter from a _member_ of the SCP, and GameSpy was very prompt and forthcoming in responses and our relations are good, and they are very excited to be continuing our relationship and hoping that we can get the fileplanet release of FS2 going

our relations are better than peachy

[kasperl]

ok, good, no hard feelings, i hope?

[Killfrenzy]

I don't think you can have a 'peachy' relationship if there are bad feelings!