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Well, different agreements for different providers. This
sounds<br>
discriminatory, Cover it with a non-disclosure agreement to
cover<br>
your tracks.<br><br>
I am not an attorney, but sounds to me they are setting the requirements
based<br>
on the providers abilities, not wanting to drive them out of business for
one<br>
game.<br><br>
It sounds inequitable, and as a provider, if I have to provide 64 slot
servers<br>
and a smaller provider to compete with my ranked servers only has
to<br>
provide 16, I have to make a bigger investment. That sucks, and
lacks<br>
business ethics. Yea... that sounds just like EA!<br><br>
Different for differing countries. Yea, I would suspect this practice
might<br>
be illegal in some.<br><br>
Mark<br><br>
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At 01:05 PM 8/16/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>That is correct sir. <br><br>
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From: ScratchMonkey
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:55 PM<br>
To: bf1942@icculus.org<br>
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Anyone have a popular non-ranked server?<br><br>
--On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:32 PM -0400 Shockwave <br>
<shockwave@clan-tf20.com> wrote:<br><br>
> Unless this is some trade secret of EA's, I think it would be<br>
> instructional to hear more about the content of these ranked
provider<br>
> agreements. If you recall, I asked for details such as this
just the<br>
> other day and this is exactly the sort of thing for which I had
asked.<br><br>
Someone mentioned an NDA earlier, so maybe the agreement itself is
secret.</font></blockquote>
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Mark J.
DeFilippis
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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