Green server and "operating under legal permission"

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not sure what your question is really. This analogy sort of misses the IP issue involved between P99 and Daybreak.

At any rate, I wasn't agreeing with OP that I think P99 is at risk of being shut down. I was just saying that Daybreak likely could if they wanted to, which they probably never would because P99 will never get to the level of causing an economic issue for Daybreak.

You wrote "shut down the server due to the copyright violation"
And then I wrote "how is copyright involved?"

I'm not interested in a broad discussion of IP. I'm specifically asking about your use of the term "copyright" and how its relevant to this project.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You wrote "shut down the server due to the copyright violation"
And then I wrote "how is copyright involved?"

I'm not interested in a broad discussion of IP. I'm specifically asking about your use of the term "copyright" and how its relevant to this project.

Ah gotcha. Sorry if I was unclear. Prior to the agreement being put into place between P99 and Daybreak, P99 had no legal right to use Daybreak's IP (i.e. the EverQuest name/brand and the game). At that time, technically Daybreak could have sued because they could argue that P99 was misappropriating their IP (i.e. copyright violation) and essentially stealing their customers away from Daybreak's product by using Daybreak's IP to provide EverQuest through Velious for free. The reason I brought that up was in the context of discussing the legal agreement and how I would not be surprised if there are some pretty favorable Daybreak terms in there because they had more leverage in the situation than P99 did.

Of course, there could be a number of arguments P99 could've made in defense had Daybreak sued them, but none of them are sure bets and that would've also been expensive to litigate.

[Dolalin]

I spent a few hundred £ on krono for Agnarr when it launched. Lots of p99 people went to Agnarr and probably did the same.

P99 isn't competition, it's a loss leader.