[Pax]

Originally posted by PvK:
No, I was talking about fan art, not piracy. Do you think fan art (i.e. mods and shipsets) are hurting SE4?

Even amateur movies modelled after existing commercial films mainly tend to promote and prolong interest in the commercial product - they don't reduce the sales of the product or its sequels.

PvK

The thing is, fan art or no, SE4 or Star Wars ... it's all one thing: IP.

You cannot remove protections of intellectual property for "the Big Guys", wihtout similarly stripping those protectiosn form the LITTLE guys.

If you removed the concept of copyright, then what would stop someone else from changing one bloody color in the SE4 UI, then handing out copies for free ... taking away from Aaron's ability to make a living producing the game ... ?

And, knowing that could be done, why in the nine hells would anyone MAKE such a game, and devote so much of their lives to improving it ... ?