Fellow Rom/Coders, Many of you know me by my snippets, and some of my posts over the years. I am The Mage (Winston) and Owner of The Mage's Lair MUD. Recently we have had a serious incident which is now demanding that I ask for advice and help.
The following is a message posted by my Co-Owner of TML on TMC and we have not had answers. I have heard that Medivia (at one time called MidThevia) was accused of stealing code. I wish to know what happened to them (If anyone knows the history). I do request your help at this time. --------------------------------------------------- Hi folks. I'm co-owner of The Mage's Lair mud. We recently had a backup version of our mud (a ROM derivative) stolen by someone whom, up to that point, we had trusted with a shell account. We have various logs and confessions proving who stole the codebase. We also know that a few copies were distributed to the thief's friends. While no new muds have appeared with our codebase as yet, what we are concerned about is that fragments of our copyrighted code may be incorporated into other muds. In particular, the person who stole our code runs a mud, and it could be very difficult to determine if fragments of our code were incorporated into that mud. At the moment, we are considering legal action for at least the theft of intellectual property and possibly copyright violations if applicable. I know of a lawyer who may be able to assist us in this matter or at least refer us to someone who could. What I want to ask you all is if any of you have been in similar situations and have investigated this further than we have yet to and what you may have found. Have any of you ever gone through with pursuing legal action of this sort? What were your experiences? Did you win a claim? If any of you have any advice on how we might proceed, other than just talking with the lawyer, we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. --Sartan ----------------------------------- Winston (aka The Mage) The Mage's Lair MUD www.mageslair.net 7060
