The company that did this didn't see it was a 3rd party modification, a mistake I can understand.
If you look at the titles of those videos on the twitter image, you will see that none say on the title that it is a mod or custom content made by users, not the company.
It mainly says along the lines of "Putt-putt craft Minecraft XBOX 360."
Minecraft for XBOX 360 = owned by mojang,
The company that did this didn't see it was a 3rd party modification, a mistake I can understand.
If you look at the titles of those videos on the twitter image, you will see that none say on the title that it is a mod or custom content made by users, not the company.
It mainly says along the lines of "Putt-putt craft Minecraft XBOX 360."
Minecraft for XBOX 360 = owned by mojang,
This makes me laugh. So many companies are doing this now, it is really quite unreal.
I have no real idea why they are doing this...
Two words: cash grab.
Companies do this because they want their targets to pay them money to avoid expensive litigation. It can be cheaper to pay off the company doing it, even if you're 100% in the right, than to fight it in court and prove you're right. If it costs you $100,000 to prove that you're right, then you're out $100,000; if they would have settled for anything less than that, you lose. In the US, at least, publicly-held companies (basically, any that issue stock) are legally required to do whatever will increase their stock price, and spending money on defense in a court case they could just buy their way out of counts. So, they have no choice but to pay off the company threatening them, even if they're totally and completely blameless.
... wouldn't they be better of using this time to put some more excitement into their own company so that more people would use it?
Nope. That would be work. Y'know, like patent trolls actually having to make products instead of threatening to sue companies that they claim are making products that the patents they've bought could in some way be used to attack. Corporate extortion is much easier and more convenient for the company doing it. Instead of building a better mousetrap, extort money from everyone who sells cats.
So much time wasted in contacting other companies that have nothing to do with the complaint that they are making.
But a fair number of them will pay up anyway, because it's cheaper to pay the danegeld than to fight the Dane. They just haven't read enough Rudyard Kipling.
"For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost."
Whats up with all the recent copyright stuff? Its like Mojang just got big enough that people decide "they have money, lets waste their time and the time of the courts"...
This wasn't made by MOJANG not distrebuted by MOJANG it is made by community.
And I looked through the letter Notch posted on twitter, that says MOJANG might be making money of of this.
Well how they see it now everyone will play MC instead of going to their stupid golf courses or what ever it is.
MOJANG isn't guildty it never was and never will be (probably)
That's what's so funny.
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If you look at the titles of those videos on the twitter image, you will see that none say on the title that it is a mod or custom content made by users, not the company.
It mainly says along the lines of "Putt-putt craft Minecraft XBOX 360."
Minecraft for XBOX 360 = owned by mojang,
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Retired StaffTwo words: cash grab.
Companies do this because they want their targets to pay them money to avoid expensive litigation. It can be cheaper to pay off the company doing it, even if you're 100% in the right, than to fight it in court and prove you're right. If it costs you $100,000 to prove that you're right, then you're out $100,000; if they would have settled for anything less than that, you lose. In the US, at least, publicly-held companies (basically, any that issue stock) are legally required to do whatever will increase their stock price, and spending money on defense in a court case they could just buy their way out of counts. So, they have no choice but to pay off the company threatening them, even if they're totally and completely blameless.
Nope. That would be work. Y'know, like patent trolls actually having to make products instead of threatening to sue companies that they claim are making products that the patents they've bought could in some way be used to attack. Corporate extortion is much easier and more convenient for the company doing it. Instead of building a better mousetrap, extort money from everyone who sells cats.
But a fair number of them will pay up anyway, because it's cheaper to pay the danegeld than to fight the Dane. They just haven't read enough Rudyard Kipling.
"For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost."
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1. The fourm may be sued over and over now.
2. Does Putt-Putt think this was a good idea now?
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That's what's so funny.
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