[MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popu lar gaming sites

[maddog at best.com]

Sellers, Michael wrote:
> 
> I strongly suspect there are a variety of more subtle/less draconian (and at
> least as effective) solutions to this "problem" of people buying and selling
> in-game assets on EBay.  It will be interesting to see how this policy plays
> out however, and whether Sony has any actual legal legs to stand on in
> trying to remove online auction sites from the picture.  
>  

Yes, Mike there are better solutions. 

As for the IP issue, this has to be the weakest argument 
that I have ever heard. No property ever
gets transferred or transformed.  There is no reverse engineering,
no derivative works, no copying and reselling.  It is just 
items in a large database. 
It's like saying everyone can buy the same book, but people have access
to only certain pages (items).  Accessing the pages is an IP violation.
Well I have been wrong before on IP issues, but this one really 
baffles me.  Looks like TSR again, in a  different body.


frank



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