ColdBlooded Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Copyright information for MCCode Source Engine Version 1 and 2 MCcodes has copyrights on the source code engines we sell on MCCodes.com. This copyright has been active since the first copy of MCCodes v1.0 was sold by MCCodes. All copies sold before the website revamp are subject to terms not to resell or redistribute the product under any circumstances. All copies sold as of the website revamp are bound by the following Terms and Conditions to the maximum extent allowed by law. Terms and Conditions - Purchases from MCCodes TERMS AND CONDITIONS These terms constitute an agreement between you, the purchaser of this MCCodes product (henceforth referred to as the Customer) and the business of MCCodes (henceforth referred to as MCCodes), regarding the product (an engine or modification) the Customer is currently purchasing, henceforth referred to as the Product. 1. Purchases made on the site of MCCodes are for a license to use the Product in question on one game only. If the Customer wishes to use the Product for multiple games, you must purchase and pay for a license for each and every game in question. 2. What the Customer is paying for is a license to use the Product - in no way does the Customer have any right to distribute the Product to anyone else, whether paid or free. 3. There is no "try-out" period for the Product - the purchase of the Product is non-refundable in all circumstances allowed by law. 4. The Product you purchase does not legally belong to the Customer - the Customer only owns a license to use the Product. 5. If updates are made available for the same major Product version as the Customer purchases, the Customer will be able to download these from their Customer Area. If a new major version of the Product is required (such as a release of MCCodes v3), a new license of the new Product in question must be purchased. 6. The Customer may upload one copy of the Product to a private server for testing purposes - however, no-one apart from the Customer is allowed to access this testing copy of the Product. 7. MCCodes makes no guarantees about the uptime of the Customer Area - we do aim to have it operational most of the time, though. MCCodes records all purchased game licenses in a database. We know that there are many unlicensed copies of our product all over the internet being used, resold and distributed illegally. MCCode will take legal action against these users of pirated software by taking actions against their game. We will act to the maximum extent allowed by law, as is required on a case by case basis. At first, we will contact the webserver provider to kindly take down the game or to advise the website operator to buy the appropriate license to stay online. If not, we will take further actions against the game owners and/or charge the webserver providers for hosting copyrighted and unlicensed material(s). We will be very strict on the copyright issues from today. Therefore we request that the community contribute towards taking down unlicensed games by simply providing us the game URLs of suspected pirated games. Please submit the URLs here, along with any proof you have of pirated software being used. -MCCodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaHit Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I'm glad to here that. It will take competition out :). Although I won't be running a game for quite awhile. I still have a lot to code in my script.. I don't care what anyone says...any engine/gaming script from scratch..is HARD!!! :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 A simple yet - half - effective idea; create a spider. We know what a MCCodes game looks like(the source at least), any match is logged for manual reviewing. A simple Google dork reveals 2,570 games. :) http://google.com/search?q=intext:"Powered by codes made by Dabomstew" Have fun guys... :P Edit: By what means do you guys check purchases? If by domain, I'll write a script that checks all Google links... gladly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Affect Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Nice idea spud but i think only 10% of the people will leave dabs name on it, now maybe if you add ravenscirpt in there you could have a giggle. People even changed the copyrights on my free template which clearly said i would contact their host... people are weird sometimes. searching for intext:register.php?REF=1 inurl:register.php?ref=1 inurl:register.php?ref=1+filetype:php LOL so many options a good one would of been to add some kind of way to alert you in the installer file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 With a spider we can actually check the content, so that means we can make assumptions based on stylesheet rules or even pure HTML markup. The legend on the login page is a big giveaway, and then the * Description field. I think a few regular expressions can make up the algorithm. Much similar to how Google indexes certain parts of our websites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHAD Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 so when will all this be done. as their are lots of illegal copys all over the internet. and action needs to be taken fast! I think mccodes should do someting about the websites which illegally distrubute the code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I could gladly help out and get all the MCCode games on the Internet, but I'm not willing to report 3,000 times to a support form. No offense, but there has to be put some similar validation method into practice for the public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominion Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 if you can find and take down every mccodes game in your life time then that is a very big achievement end of the day 1/2 of them may not even look like mccodes at the back anymore so not every host will just accept mccodes has a right to ask them to take it down. that and theres always the issue of people unaware of raven being mccodes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 There is allot of ways to find something you want. ;) If raven is MCCodes, then is should be taken down... right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Palmer Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I'll take MCCodes 'take down' serious when I see Ravan Removed :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Anyone could by reference alone take that site down. Quote from his host: "Using AltusHost services for SPAM, MALWARE or BOTNETS are STRICTLY PROHIBITED! Services used for mentored activities will be suspended without warning!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdBlooded Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 Exactly Spudinski. We are taking this further actions with our buddy Ravan. I guess you only experience the power of breeching a law when you witness it. Whereas others will think its nothing because they haven't experienced its outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 This can be lengthy though, I tried to ask for a thorough documentation on their terms concerning piracy on their little Live support feature. Guess what, two hours later with no response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny696 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 The owner of ravan is on here somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominion Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 it is really good seeing you try and take down raven script if it comes down i think you will find a lot of games go offline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdBlooded Posted May 25, 2010 Author Share Posted May 25, 2010 Ravan has been taken down - Officially offline. We'll be taking them to court to claim loses and to prove infringer's out there to not make the same mistake-like. We are only here to help expand web browsing community, please appreciate our work. Small unlicensed games continue to go offline until a concrete statement that "MCCodes are now serious about copyrights" has been laid across solidly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haunted Dawg Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Ravan has been taken down - Officially offline. We'll be taking them to court to claim loses and to prove infringer's out there to not make the same mistake-like. We are only here to help expand web browsing community, please appreciate our work. Small unlicensed games continue to go offline until a concrete statement that "MCCodes are now serious about copyrights" has been laid across solidly. About time :sleeping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Gah... Kyle. Just say your happy... you know you want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drizzle Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Its a very good effort indeed good job. But what are you going to do about the countless amount of torrent sites and download sites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corruptcity || skalman Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 and rapidshare/megaupload links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Those are minor threats, and something everyone can take a part in. If you see something like that, look for the [report] link on the page an simply report it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD_Dusty Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Whats the lic/reg name for the copyright for mccodes.. Cuz there is not record of a copy right in the USA for McCodes... So unless its under a different name, has no ties the McCodes, or McCodes found a way around the Law For Copyrights in the USA. Then ANY one in the USA that has copy of these codes can sell them to who ever when ever and for what ever they want. And is was stated by the U.S. Copyright Office from like 5 different people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdBlooded Posted May 30, 2010 Author Share Posted May 30, 2010 Let me assure you that MCCode product V1 and V2 are copyright registered under the United States and the Australasia copyright act laws. They are not listed under the company name, MCCodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominion Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Let me assure you that MCCode product V1 and V2 are copyright registered under the United States and the Australasia copyright act laws. They are not listed under the company name, MCCodes. since he asked why not give us the name and number? not sure about how us copyright works but is there not a site that you can check off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corruptcity || skalman Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 what bout under UK copyright act laws? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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