That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!

[eldritch]

I hope his dog still likes this Tobias guy, although it's unlikely.

[SuperDeadite]

So he claims to make no money off this, and yet charges very different prices depending on the title.  Does not compute.

Personally I think NightW should give him the finger.  Don't let this f*ck buy you off.  Also Paul England is very easy to find.  Send me a PM if you need help.

[Necromancer]

As a member of this forum, I love Tobias and everything he does.  It the law. 

[toymachine78]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

[Arkhan]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

[synbiosfan]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

The translators would need the ip owners permission for it to be legal too..

[toymachine78]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

But how many companies do you think really care about these old games? Especially if the IP is no longer being used. Half of these companies are defunct. The worst case scenario these days is you will receive a Cease and Desist.

[Arkhan]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

But how many companies do you think really care about these old games? Especially if the IP is no longer being used. Half of these companies are defunct. The worst case scenario these days is you will receive a Cease and Desist.

Until they realize you sold 1000 copies and made a bit of money, and send a law suit up your ass, dry.  lol

and then they repackage it and put it on the virtual console or something and you cry yourself to sleep.

aw yeah.

[toymachine78]

I dunno. I'm just tired of hearing about this shit.

[Medic_wheat]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

The translators would need the ip owners permission for it to be legal too..

Then how is his guy pressing and selling these fan translates games? Did he go out and get permission from the IP holders?

[synbiosfan]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

The translators would need the ip owners permission for it to be legal too..

Then how is his guy pressing and selling these fan translates games? Did he go out and get permission from the IP holders?

He's dumb enough to risk it.

[Medic_wheat]

I don't understand why translators don't press and sell their work themselves. With scaled down packaging you could easily undercut him in price and put him out of business. Especially considering there is a currency conversion and overseas shipping. Create a translators guild and unite against him.

probably because it's actually illegal and this guy's just being a knob gobbler.

The translators would need the ip owners permission for it to be legal too..

Then how is his guy pressing and selling these fan translates games? Did he go out and get permission from the IP holders?

He's dumb enough to risk it.

Ok that was my thinking.


Second thought.

Apart from making the general public aware of using fan translated work to make money without prior notice or request for April to use their work.


Why not just alert whom ever still owns the IP of these games of what he is doing to shut it down?

Kind of iceberg meets titanic situation. Sure everyone loses but it keeps the fan work kept from wing abiused which seems to be the main issue that NW has with his work on this and any other project?

Side note. Never heard of this guy by do remember some people posting here that thing called PCE memories with copies of Fasut Armor Godzilla and one or two other super CD games.

[420GOAT]

cant you send some one? easy.

[elmer]

Why not just alert whom ever still owns the IP of these games of what he is doing to shut it down?

Depending upon the size of the original IP holder ...
[ul][li]is the legal dept on-staff or external?[/li][li]how busy are they?[/li][li]how far up the management chain does a decision on how to respond go?[/li][li]how many meetings and man hours is it going to take to get that decision?[/li][/ul]... then it will cost them hundreds (rare) to many thousands (more likely) of dollars to respond.

That's what bootleggers and small-scale-thieves count on ... it's often easier for companies to ignore (and pretend that they have never heard of) the issue than confront it.

If the issue gets enough public visibility, then they'll have to respond in order to protect their IP ... but if not, then they can ignore it.

That's probably why Tobias actually started to talk to NightWolve, it calms things down a bit and probably stops it from getting the escalating publicity of a good fight, that would inevitably lead to the IP owners having to respond.

[Necromancer]

Why not just alert whom ever still owns the IP of these games of what he is doing to shut it down?

Like elmer said, they most likely won't give a f*ck.  If they do, where does it end?  If they shut down Tobias, don't be surprised if they went after everyone else, like those making repro manuals, hosting scans of manuals/magazines/etc., hosting pre-patched isos, or even those that made the patches themselves.