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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5289340" data-attributes="member: 40177">I don't know, man - your second post seems to me like you're drawing a line in the sand.&nbsp; This really is a &quot;what part of no didn't you understand?&quot; sort of thing, to put it bluntly.the fact is, if they encourage players to do this sort of thing, what they are essentially doing is legally allowing their art to basically float on the internet for free.&nbsp; While you can say it's harmless, they have no legal redress if they find that Joe Blo has ripped images off your site for use in some product of his own - after all, you could have improperly claimed license over those images (they can't monitor every website, after all).&nbsp; They could, however, go after Joe Blo if he took the images off THEIR site.&nbsp; And this is irrelevant of customer service.&nbsp; If I run a burger company, I still don't give the customers the recipe to my burger.&nbsp; Or, more to the point, I don't say to a guy &quot;hey, yeah, name your burger 'the wik burger' and give it to your friends, that's perfectly fine&quot; because, well, I have a brand to protect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5289340, member: 40177"] I don't know, man - your second post seems to me like you're drawing a line in the sand. This really is a "what part of no didn't you understand?" sort of thing, to put it bluntly. the fact is, if they encourage players to do this sort of thing, what they are essentially doing is legally allowing their art to basically float on the internet for free. While you can say it's harmless, they have no legal redress if they find that Joe Blo has ripped images off your site for use in some product of his own - after all, you could have improperly claimed license over those images (they can't monitor every website, after all). They could, however, go after Joe Blo if he took the images off THEIR site. And this is irrelevant of customer service. If I run a burger company, I still don't give the customers the recipe to my burger. Or, more to the point, I don't say to a guy "hey, yeah, name your burger 'the wik burger' and give it to your friends, that's perfectly fine" because, well, I have a brand to protect. [/QUOTE]

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