4/30/2023 0 Comments Curse or wowmatrix 2017![]() There are different circumstances with every situation (and I've seen and heard just about all of them). No, most hosts will not deactivate an account. Unfortunately, there are a handful of hosts out there that could care less about bandwidth theft. The only hope a web site owner has is to contact the offending sites web host and pray that host respects their reputation enough to do something about it. Now bandwidth theft, you're going to have issues there because there is no Internet law that covers bandwidth theft. Redistributing copyrighted material without the authors consent is illegal. If you want to sue for infringement, then your work better be registered. The author of a non registered piece of work cannot take anyone into court and sue for infringement. There is only one difference between a registered work and a non registered work. That work is covered under the exact same laws as any other piece of work that is registered to the U.S. If the download IS properly protected, then everything is good.Ī work becomes automatically and legally copyrighted as soon as it is put in readable or tangible format. If the download isn't properly protected, hey, it's out there for the world to take. When it comes down to it, they are doing something wrong in the sense that they are taking other's bandwidth, but that's not their problem. Most will suspend the account and not allow it to be reactivated. If you send a DMCA notice to the datacenter (or host), they are legally required to comply with this notice and remove the material immediately. If you WANT your work to be known only as your work, then COPYRIGHT it, legally. The "If you design it, it is copyrighted" excuse is lame, and has been ruled against so many times it's not funny. If the author says "do not redistribute", yet the site does so, then that is between the author, and the site, however it is NOT illegal to do, unless the author has SPECIFICALLY obtained copyrights and patents for each mod they have designed. Claiming the mod is their own is illegal. Why should someone have to debug someone else's pathetic mod? They shouldn't! ![]() But none of them have met my standards for useful/trustworthy yet. ![]() I certainly don't update every day! Why would I risk breaking my interface every time I play? I understand the convenience of auto-updaters. I am a Mac user and an addon author, and I update manually. If authors of popular addons had to pay for their own hosting, I suspect we'd lose quite a few of them. Ace and wowinterface survived, but the traffic was huge. I don't have permission to publish numbers, but recall that both Curse and Wowui were offline for the sunwell patch. I don't think you realize the insane amount of bandwidth and server resources we're talking about here. These sites are almost entirely ad supported. The community and tools provided by these sites greatly enhance the quality and quantity of available addons. Point 2 - Probably won't kill all addons. It is within the hosting site's rights to prevent that. They are circumventing the download process of the hosting site. So, you are saying we won't have any more Addons then? The end of the world? The only difference is that by pressing the 'Download'-Button in WoWInterface you are making a deal with WoWInterface, whilst in WoWMatrix when you press the 'Update All' Button you don't (of course you can argue you implicitly do agree to the policies of all involved Addon-Download-Sites at once). I'm pretty sure the Addon authors didn't allow my Firefox-Browser to download (aka re-distribute?) their Addon. The re-distribution part is a little bit tricky.
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