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- Dunno what this means for Bad Mood, but I though it might be of someones
- interest to read (found in STR online magazine).
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- Doom Maker Moves Against Copycats
- Game maker id Software, best known for its Doom title, is stepping up its
- efforts to prevent companies from offering unlicensed products based on its
- flagship software. The Mesquite, Texas-based company says it is moving
- against the publishers of Doom add-on programs as well books using "Doom" in
- the Title.
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- The firm notes that it recently won a permanent injunction against Precision
- Software, a British company that offered products featuring Doom characters.
- Additionally, id says it has received assurances of compliance -- and in some
- instances monetary compensation -- from a variety of other game and book
- publishers, including Sams Publishing, Wizardworks, Softkey International and
- The Waite Group.
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- DOOM and DOOM II were both designed with an open-ended architecture that
- allows users to try their hand at game design. But the company never
- anticipated that commercial developers and publishers would use the
- capability to market their own compatible products.
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- "Over the past few years we have seen more and more companies exploiting our
- success with Doom and Doom II by publishing illegal and shoddy imitations and
- add-on products," says id spokesman Jay Wilbur. "We are vehemently opposed to
- companies trading on our name and reputation and will continue to go after
- them legally to stop them and in turn protect our intellectual property
- rights."
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- Greetings, Anders Eriksson - ae@kuai.se - Dead Hackers Society
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