Wednesday, December 04, 2002
EQ - Twink Away? or Is it Okay to eBay?
InkTank Forums :: View topic - My(not so)supersales? - Basically, the author of Angst Technology has managed to "step in it" (e.g. stir up a sensitive subject), not really knowing any better at the time when he posted his original "Twink Away" news item on his home page. It's turning into a very lively debate about intellectual property, EQ's EULA, and whether the selling/auctioning of items in EQ is really that gray of an area or not. I think what's setting everyone off is that monkly-business was just bought and paid for by the owner of the web-site that AT is opining (shilling? no just overly-enthusiastic I think) about. However, the author is being *very* open-minded about this sudden negative attention that he's receiving - so it's turning into an interesting debate and I think he's got a lot of class for that.
My bets are on SOE taking some action - I think the auction site in question has raised it's profile too far. The gauntlet has been thrown in SOE's face, and either they do something about it now, or basically condone it by doing nothing. You see, there's an interesting aspect to Intellectual Property law - you have to defend your IP when it is mis-used or risk losing control over it (it shifts into the common domain). Up until now I think they were willing to look the other way because it was kept on the fringes - polite society didn't talk about it. But between monkley-business, /gu, and now Angst Tech... (maybe other places), it's raised about 10 notches in publicity which means SOE has to take notice of it.Labels: EverQuest
posted by Wuphon's at 9:22 PM
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