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DMCA Claim Results in Star Control: Origins Being Pulled From Steam and GOG

The license from Ur-Quan Masters. Interesting that all of the copyrights are for the developer ("Toys for Bob") and not Reiche and Ford.
Code: 
    The Ur-Quan Masters  Copyright (C) 1992, 2002 Toys for Bob, Inc.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be entertaining,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.  A copy of the
    General Public License is included at the end of this document.

    The content -- Ur-Quan Masters' voiceovers, dialogue, graphics, 
	sounds, and music -- are copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 2002 
	Toys for Bob, Inc. or their  respective creators.  
	The content may be used freely under the
    terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
    2.5 license (included below, and also available at
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).  The content
    may also be copied freely as part of a distribution of The Ur-Quan
    Masters HD.	
	
    The documentation -- excluding documentation that is part of the
    code or otherwise clearly governed by the preceding licenses --
    may be used freely under the terms of the Creative Commons
    Attribution 2.0 license (included below, and also available at
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
Toys for Bob was purchased in 2005 by Activision. Strange that they used their company name instead of their name as they did with the original games.


Edit: Okay, Star Control: Origins is basically a plagiarized version of Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters. Take SC2 and update it with a modern 3D engine, swap species for another (e.g. Ur-Quan with Scryve), and you got SCO.

I got raped in the first space battle and there is no autosaving. Woe is me. I kind of want to keep playing it but...eh...
 
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@FordGT90Concept It has a battle simulator where you can get the hang of things. Otherwise it's pretty hard. Not to mention it will cost you precious resources (and time) to learn that in game.
 
And people complain about the metro comments... Holy shit the disgruntled developer spamming his squarespace site.

Sold off the rights then decided they wanted more... Perhaps Stardock has ruined a reboot. There is a right way and a wrong way to compete. This is the wrong way. The fallout devs making a new world from scratch... (outer worlds) Thats most likely the right way.... Time will tell.
 
Wow.

Its a true soap story that one
 
I wouldn't say either side is boned. There's so many laws in so many states in play as well as sales that may or may not have been valid and debts that may or may not be owed. I think all parties will be grateful for clarity at the end of it.
 
FordGT90Concept said:
I wouldn't say either side is boned. There's so many laws in so many states in play as well as sales that may or may not have been valid and debts that may or may not be owed. I think all parties will be grateful for clarity at the end of it.
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I don't know about everybody else, but imho, as far the the SC2 legacy is concerned, we could have done without this.
 
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