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Postby jake2k3 » Fri May 11, 2007 5:03 pm

Here's the email I sent to their "Contact Us" email address.

Hi,
I’m a member of www.fretsonfire.org, and we’ve recently spotted someone who is distributing copies of FoF (with the GH I and II songs, along with over 200 community made songs) for £10 on Ebay. This is very illegal, and action needs to be taken against it and the seller. He’s made near £100 off this, an open-source game! Not only that, but he has had no permission from the song makers (some from www.fretsonfire.org). Please take action against this. You can find the item here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-....ewItem.

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Goodbye everyone. It's been fun. I spent many many hours here on these boards and playing/contributing to FoF. Today I uninstalled my game and deleted all my files. I just don't have the time or interest anymore. I won't be coming back here anymore. I might show up in the IRC from time to time to chat. I regret nothing.

So long, farewell.
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Postby furun » Fri May 11, 2007 5:04 pm

jake2k3 wrote:Someone should contact the creators of FoF, they're the ones that should be pissed off the most.

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Postby Keith » Fri May 11, 2007 5:12 pm

jake2k3 wrote:Here's the email I sent to their "Contact Us" email address.

Hi,
I’m a member of www.fretsonfire.org, and we’ve recently spotted someone who is distributing copies of FoF (with the GH I and II songs, along with over 200 community made songs) for £10 on Ebay. This is very illegal, and action needs to be taken against it and the seller. He’s made near £100 off this, an open-source game! Not only that, but he has had no permission from the song makers (some from www.fretsonfire.org). Please take action against this. You can find the item here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-....ewItem.

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You shouldn't have used abbreviations. They probably don't even know what you are talking about, and I doubt they will click the link to the forum. But at least you are doing something about this ****.
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Postby zoneman » Fri May 11, 2007 5:18 pm

this guy finnaly gits cought by 1 of our community...and now he has like hundreds of ppl against him......i love it!! :D i hope this ass gets sued!!
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Postby jake2k3 » Fri May 11, 2007 5:19 pm

jake2k3 wrote:Here's the email I sent to their "Contact Us" email address.

Hi,
I’m a member of www.fretsonfire.org, and we’ve recently spotted someone who is distributing copies of FoF (with the GH I and II songs, along with over 200 community made songs) for £10 on Ebay. This is very illegal, and action needs to be taken against it and the seller. He’s made near £100 off this, an open-source game! Not only that, but he has had no permission from the song makers (some from www.fretsonfire.org). Please take action against this. You can find the item here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-....ewItem.

Your fans,
Jake2k3 and the community at fretsonfire.org

You shouldn't have used abbreviations. They probably don't even know what you are talking about, and I doubt they will click the link to the forum. But at least you are doing something about this ****.

I sent it to the FoF guys, not ebay.
They link to this forum on their main page, and one of the devs posts here from time to time. I'm sure they know who we are.

I'm sure they know what FoF stands for too ;).
~Jake2k3
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Goodbye everyone. It's been fun. I spent many many hours here on these boards and playing/contributing to FoF. Today I uninstalled my game and deleted all my files. I just don't have the time or interest anymore. I won't be coming back here anymore. I might show up in the IRC from time to time to chat. I regret nothing.

So long, farewell.
~Jake2k3
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Postby Keith » Fri May 11, 2007 5:21 pm

jake2k3 wrote:
jake2k3 wrote:Here's the email I sent to their "Contact Us" email address.

Hi,
I’m a member of www.fretsonfire.org, and we’ve recently spotted someone who is distributing copies of FoF (with the GH I and II songs, along with over 200 community made songs) for £10 on Ebay. This is very illegal, and action needs to be taken against it and the seller. He’s made near £100 off this, an open-source game! Not only that, but he has had no permission from the song makers (some from www.fretsonfire.org). Please take action against this. You can find the item here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-....ewItem.

Your fans,
Jake2k3 and the community at fretsonfire.org

You shouldn't have used abbreviations. They probably don't even know what you are talking about, and I doubt they will click the link to the forum. But at least you are doing something about this ****.

I sent it to the FoF guys, not ebay.
They link to this forum on their main page, and one of the devs posts here from time to time. I'm sure they know who we are.

I'm sure they know what FoF stands for too ;).
~Jake2k3

Sorry, I skipped a few pages of the topic and thought you were talking about the people at Ebay.
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Postby nwru » Fri May 11, 2007 5:23 pm

Legally, it's not as bad that he's selling FoF or our community-created notes, but he's selling the music files as well. He may as well be selling a CD full of mp3s for those songs, all of which he doesn't have the license to do. I imagine Ebay would be more responsive to that part.
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Postby raph666 » Fri May 11, 2007 5:49 pm

I agree for the songs, that's the main problem I see...even maybe the only one that doesn't respect ebay's policy. However, he still doesn't respect the GNU general public license for FoF by not giving credits to their authors...but nobody at ebay will care about the GNU license. anyway, I joined the "report" movement and contacted ebay too.
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Postby RexMundi412 » Fri May 11, 2007 6:21 pm

tibiazak wrote:and btw rex, how about a barett .50 cal sniper? i'd suggest not going near windows for a while, or this will be you.

Barett..Very nice, probably my favorite weapon. Since I love the sniping style of fighting.


Back on topic...If he can make cash off my crappy fretting and labels, God bless him. I just don't want his actions causing us problems.

I wonder more about the idiots that would buy it? A modicum of searching the NET and you can easly find quasi Guitar Hero games.
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Postby miz » Fri May 11, 2007 6:53 pm

Stuart07 wrote:Im browsing through ebay looking for a spare controller and came across this.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-....iewItem

This dude is making a killing from these people lol.

Just wondering if FOF has any writes which restrict it from sale or not.

omfg this guy is genius... hes taking a free game that most people dont know about and selling it for money...
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Postby jake2k3 » Fri May 11, 2007 6:53 pm

Yeah, a real genius. 'Till he gets sued for a hell of a lot more than he's making off of it.
Goodbye everyone. It's been fun. I spent many many hours here on these boards and playing/contributing to FoF. Today I uninstalled my game and deleted all my files. I just don't have the time or interest anymore. I won't be coming back here anymore. I might show up in the IRC from time to time to chat. I regret nothing.

So long, farewell.
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Postby miz » Fri May 11, 2007 6:54 pm

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Postby whatakevin » Fri May 11, 2007 11:31 pm

lmfao i bet the seller is like a 10 yr old that doesnt know jack

it just pisses me off that alot of this comunity put in lots of hard work JUST FOR THIS GUY TO COME IN AND SELL IT?!!

lmfao at least he didnt get his copy of RF mod, then ebay might be looking in this direction
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Postby Stuart07 » Sat May 12, 2007 4:45 am

zoneman wrote:this guy finnaly gits cought by 1 of our community...and now he has like hundreds of ppl against him......i love it!! :D i hope this ass gets sued!!

Just doing my part :)
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Postby nobby76 » Sun May 13, 2007 3:14 pm

any one know if something has been done about this yet??
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