Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem

From: MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <928611274.21331.0.nnrp-12.d4e5b7aa@news.demon.co.uk>,
  "Roy/DAYone" <plod@NOSPAMWIGWAMdayone.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Anyone who attempts to make a product without license is a thief.
> >
> > Anyone who attempts to make a product based on copyrighted material
> > belonging to Midkemia Press or The Bitter Sea Company will be sent
a cease
> > and desist letter and if that is inored they will be sued.  And
they will
> > lose.
> >
> Interesting. Must admit I'm not a fan of Fiests stuff - Think its
pretty
> boring, generic, unoriginal stuff which was written before and after
him by
> hundreds of other writers. As such, I'm wondering how a copyright for
such a
> generic series of books would be enforced against a PBM or PBeM.
> More's the point, why threaten things that could never be enforced? If
> Serafim states theres a game run and enjoyed for twenty players over
the
> Email - how could one send a 'cease and desist' letter to someone if
only an
> anonymous email exists (say Hotmail or something like that?) - And if
the
> cease and desist got thru it would almost certainly be ignored and
the game
> played more 'furtively'?

There's actually a case going on at the moment with the church of
Scientology subpeoning an ISP to get details of a poster called Safe
who has been posting copyrighted materials (according to them) to the
internet en masse. Safe claims he is just informing the masses as to
the intent of the church. However, they have a subpeona, which the ISP
must comply with and must suplpy the posters details. In the same way,
Microsoft who own Hotmail could be forced to provide the details of the
hotmail address.

> > And for the ill-informed who repeated the opinion that Midkemia was
> > "lifted intact" from M.A.R. Barkers Empire of the Petal Thorn, get
your
> > facts straight.  Phil Barker had NOTHING to say about Midkemia.  He
had
> > one distressed phone call to ...
>
> Yeh, agree with  Stevie-boy, this has certainly touched a nerve.
Could this
> guy (if its REALLY is the author) be already nervous and aware of
people
> challenging the originality of his own stuff? Seems a bit sad that
someone
> would lay into someone for running a harmless game. Makes you realise
what a
> nice guy a lot of the other authors are.

Roy, it is Ray Feist. When I had more time last year I was on the
mailing list last year and I still lurk in the fan newsgroup of REF
from time to time. I recognise his sigature and signoff as well as the
dejanews handle that he uses. It is REF.

Actually Ray Feist is a nice guy and I enjoy his books. I was at his
Glasgow signing last year in Scotland.

> >
> > Now, I hope I've put all this nonsense to rest.
> >
> Almost certainly not Raymond.
>
> > Any questions should be sent to raymond2bittersea.com, as I won't be
> > reading this board.
>
> How condescending.
>
> Roy
> co-GM DayOne www.dayone.demon.co.uk
> "DayONE is a copyrighted thingy and anyone breaching that copyright
will be
> scowled at and probably sworn at as well... but we're skint so we
probably
> won't drag yer ass thru the courts.. maybe thru a trench of buring
coals,
> but not the courts.. nope, far too expensive ... is this sig too
long?"

Nope . Five lines long - perfick <g> according to the sig experts....

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References

Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Roy/DAYone" <plod@NOSPAMWIGWAMdayone.demon.co.uk>
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Dill" <rena8888@hotmail.com>
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
kenosti@ozemail.com.au (Anestis Kozakis)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Serafim" <serafim@NOSPAMYABASTARDfreeuk.com>
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
raymond@bittersea.com (Raymond E. Feist)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Roy/DAYone" <plod@NOSPAMWIGWAMdayone.demon.co.uk>
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Dill" <rena8888@hotmail.com>
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
kenosti@ozemail.com.au (Anestis Kozakis)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
"Serafim" <serafim@NOSPAMYABASTARDfreeuk.com>
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Raymond.E.Fiest Pbem
raymond@bittersea.com (Raymond E. Feist)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000