Oh geez..... gotta laugh when someone quotes directly from wikipedia then instructs someone else to brush up on their knowledge. Good luck walking into the Supreme Court with your wikipedia quotes. Copyright law is really very vague and full of grey areas. The law states that the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that your work was copied directly. How does one prove that? Almost impossible. Why do you think Chinese car manufacturers get away with blatantly ripping-off other manufacturer's designs by changing the name and styling just enough to satisfy the law, but still so little that the two product are virtually identical. Maybe the BMW and Rolls Royce legal teams didn't get their degrees from Wikipedia University like you.
Nobody in 4J Studios position is ever going to just blatantly rip off another design. Why bring so much legal heat on themselves for so little gain? But if it is given away freely, they receive no profit from the product and they attribute the design to the original creator then I'm not sure what can be done to stop it. Either way, like I said, it's a douchebag move. Far better to simply get the original creators permission to use their design.
The Chinese car makers you mention get away with it because they're part of China, a sovereign country which all but ignores our copyright laws. I guarantee you they would go down in court, hard, if they were located in Detroit, Michigan. Their undeserved good fortune has nothing to do with any vagueness in copyright law.
I too was disappointed, but it was purely my own fault. I thought, as you did, that it was going to change the textures of things and make them look a little different. What the did was just add in blocks, regardless of if they made any sence, this pack is only for building, it's not meant for a survival world.
I just tried the trial (You should of too, so this is actually your fault in a way, so stop whining!) and I think the texture packs are a great addition to minecraft! I assume this Mass Effect pack is for building stuff and making maps.
The only problem with the trial is that you can't save until you buy it. I learned that the hard way.
Oh you poor child let me play my violin for you. Honestly you cant just go in an existing world with the defualt textures used when being built, and assume that it will great with a different pack. You were going in with the wrong mind set, you went in thinking it would suck... and you thought it sucked. I thought it was sweet, and cant wait to buy it.
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The Chinese car makers you mention get away with it because they're part of China, a sovereign country which all but ignores our copyright laws. I guarantee you they would go down in court, hard, if they were located in Detroit, Michigan. Their undeserved good fortune has nothing to do with any vagueness in copyright law.
The only problem with the trial is that you can't save until you buy it. I learned that the hard way.