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From: genghis@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu (Spencer F. Katt)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Piracy Lawsuit
Date: 5 Sep 94 00:50:02 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 42
Message-ID: <genghis.778726202@ilces>
References: <34dlem$lt8@eis.calstate.edu> <34dmq3$8b2@news.mic.ucla.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ilces.ag.uiuc.edu
legrand@tesla.mbi.ucla.edu (Scott Le Grand) writes:
>In article <34dlem$lt8@eis.calstate.edu>, jcupp@eis.calstate.edu (John S. Cupp) writes:
>> I just wanted to let you all know that a few days ago, a lawsuit was
>> filed against someone who claimed that they had Doom ][. I'll let you all
>> know what the results are when I find out.
>Details?
The following is a report direct from Rumor Central:
The Power Meower received the following from an anonymous source who, for
unstated purrposes, would give no direct information but would supply only
vague hints WRT this lawsuit. He directed the Katt's attention to a recent
post in alt.games.doom by the president of a well-known shareware game
distribution company. This company has been much-discussed in a.g.d of late,
the source confided to the Katt. He notes that the president of this company
claimed to have played a pre-release version of DOOM II in a public message.
This anonymous source also made mention of the fact that id software, the
creators of DOOM II, had once been under the umbrella of this
distributor but some time ago dissolved their association with this company;
rumor has it the breakup was a bitter one. The tipster tells that the
distributor, sore at losing their star performers, stole the masters for
DOOM II and spread them around the net, hoping to dampen sales for the
new game. "Sounds like a clear case of revenge," hissed his hirsuteness.
Although the perpetrator wanted to sign his handiwork with the handle
"RAPTOR," the higher-ups at the distributor feared this moniker to be too
revealing and thus was effected a last-minute change to "RAZOR" or somesuch.
Yet the CEO carelessly let the Katt out of the bag (so to speak) by
posting about the game publicly in an international forum.
"Whew! Gotta stop reading so much alt.conspiracy," purred the Puss.
[Closed Captioning for those with broken Satire Detectors: The above is
a work of fiction. Take it seriously at the risk of your own sanity!]
--
Scott Coleman, President ASRE (American Society of Reverse Engineers)
asre@uiuc.edu
Life is temporally limited - drive velocitously!!