[cod] Beware...

[James Landi]

Thanks for the heads up, I've seen this on my site (only one or two 
request) but we've been able to nip those posts in the bud.

I've passed your message on to Activision in hopes they can do 
something.  These smaller GSPs should understand, that we have it easy 
and Activision can make the job of a GSP very hard by licensing them the 
server code.  I know all you GSPs would love to deal with that, on top 
of the delayed Linux bits, and patches.

I've been willing to help spread CoD2/4/5 bits around to GPSs upon 
release or even pre release but if the smaller guys are letting these 
modified exes on their servers then I'll stick to the people I know and 
trust.

I wonder what Activision's legal department would say if they found 
these "modified" exes on commercial GSP servers?

Come on guys, we're loosing support by the day from the publishers and 
developers and they will blame anything other then their workmanship.  
Lets not give them another reason to kill our platform.

Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com
Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows



Oliver Warburton wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  
> A heads up for you gsps.
>  
> We seem to have had a lot of enquiries / signups over the past few 
> days from people that want to edit exe's. When I dig a bit further, 
> they obviously want to run cracked servers.
>  
> So essentially, they buy legit servers, then want access.
>  
> I am presuming for the 99% of TCadmin gsp lot this isn't an issue. For 
> the small minority (hence emailing this list), just beware. These guys 
> pose as normal customers and pretend to just want to make "minor" 
> changes to the exe, which of course we absolutely did not allow.
>  
> 2/3 have got nasty and filed a paypal dispute.
>  
> Hope this helps.
>  
> Oliver Warburton,
> Managing Director
> INX-Network LTD
>  
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