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Title: Whistleblowing: copyright violations on OA servers
Post by: cheb on September 21, 2012, 03:11:14 PM
":F Normal CTF for stupid" at http://akvariumok.uw.hu/ has one map in its cycle (Face.pk3) which uses skybox stolen from Quake II. Its readme also states that all textures are from UT.

I thought I was seeing things at first, but no, it was Stroggos filing the sky. Such a *blatant* theft. FRom id software, no less.  >:(


Title: Re: Whistleblowing: copyright violations on OA servers
Post by: fromhell on September 21, 2012, 05:24:44 PM
Well, that's one reason why we have autodownloads disabled by default.


Copyrighted textures from commercial games are always finding their way into 3rd party maps. It's especially more rife in Doom and Quake communities.