Scratch

rdococ wrote:

scratch_yoshi wrote:

I am still on Namco's side.

Actually, Namco only took down Scratch's pacman projects, not Google's, not others.
I am on the neutral side. Pacman is copyrighted, however they didn't tell Google to take down theirs, or others.

Okay, I'm going to take over Pacman and make it MINE. Thanks, Namco.  [/color]

Earthboundjeff wrote:

To everyone who is against or neutral...
What NAMCO did was against Trade Policy. It's a little thing called fair use, and Scratch is educational. Theoretically, we could sue them. Don't try to defend them, it wasn't infringing any copyright laws because of Fair Use.

Somehow, everyone manages to ignore this post even though it's been said at least five times.

Pecola1 wrote:

Pecola1 wrote:

What is NAMCO's email?

So, what is it?

Anybody?

Yes!

waveOSBeta wrote:

Lol, I went through the trouble of stalking NOMCO for this? xD

lol, NOMCO

NOM NOM NOM

Yes, NOMCO. My new name for N aMCO.

Bump

Did you already send the email? (I support). I think someone should go NOM NOMCO >=)

Last edited by Dinoclor (2011-05-24 14:28:00)

I am going to send an email:

Dear Namco,
Picture a kid who REALLY likes an artist. They like them so much that they decided to, for a school project, draw a picture which looked similar to one of the artists paintings. So the kid draws a picture which looks almost identical to the picture. The kid sees that a lot of people are doing this, only some are selling the pictures an getting money for them. The next day the artist walks into the kid's school room and tells the teacher to take down and burn the picture the child made because the artist copyrighted it. How do you think this kid felt about the artist after that? The kid works for hours to make the picture look so good, then the artist comes in and makes the teacher BURN it? I know how I would feel, hate. I wouldn't like the artist AT ALL! I would rip up all the things I bought from the artist and NEVER buy anything from them AGAIN.
This has actually happened before! In a way, the story is just a metaphor. The teacher: The Scratch Team, from the MIT lab. The boy: a scratcher named 124scratcher. The artist: you. You told The Scratch Team to take down ONE project by 124scratcher which was actually protected by Fair Use. The scratchers project was educational, shared, and was nonprofit. This means the project was fully legal. However, you decided to tell the Scratch Team to take it off. This was evil of you to do, you could have gone to a profitable website which had a Namco game and told THEM to take it off, but you targeted a children's website which was educational and nonprofit.
If you don't like their project being on, why give DMCA notices to everyone who has made a game on the internet, just Google search Pac-Man and you will get over 25,300,000 results, now you can start clicking on links and finding ones that go against what you want. Also go to http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 87&p=1 to see many Scratchers protesting against NAMCO, so why wait? Do it now if you really care, otherwise, one educational project taken off even when it is legal? Just think about it.

Tell me what you think. 

Last edited by Pecola1 (2011-05-24 14:51:52)

Pecola1 wrote:

I am going to send an email:

Dear Namco,
Picture a kid who REALLY likes an artist. They like them so much that they decided to, for a school project, draw a picture which looked similar to one of the artists paintings. So the kid draws a picture which looks almost identical to the picture. The kid sees that a lot of people are doing this, only some are selling the pictures an getting money for them. The next day the artist walks into the kid's school room and tells the teacher to take down and burn the picture the child made because the artist copyrighted it. How do you think this kid felt about the artist after that? The kid works for hours to make the picture look so good, then the artist comes in and makes the teacher BURN it? I know how I would feel, hate. I wouldn't like the artist AT ALL! I would rip up all the things I bought from the artist and NEVER buy anything from them AGAIN.
This has actually happened before! In a way, the story is just a metaphor. The teacher: The Scratch Team, from the MIT lab. The boy: a scratcher named 124scratcher. The artist: you. You told The Scratch Team to take down ONE project by 124scratcher which was actually protected by Fair Use. The scratchers project was educational, shared, and was nonprofit. This means the project was fully legal. However, you decided to tell the Scratch Team to take it off. This was evil of you to do, you could have gone to a profitable website which had a Namco game and told THEM to take it off, but you targeted a children's website which was educational and nonprofit.
If you don't like their project being on, why give DMCA notices to everyone who has made a game on the internet, just Google search Pac-Man and you will get over 25,300,000 results, now you can start clicking on links and finding ones that go against what you want. Also go to http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 87&p=1 to see many Scratchers protesting against NAMCO, so why wait? Do it now if you really care, otherwise, one educational project taken off even when it is legal? Just think about it.

Tell me what you think. 

Evil is very strong.

Not too many, that would be spam. But at least 7 of us already have. 

scimonster wrote:

Pecola1 wrote:

I am going to send an email:

Dear Namco,
Picture a kid who REALLY likes an artist. They like them so much that they decided to, for a school project, draw a picture which looked similar to one of the artists paintings. So the kid draws a picture which looks almost identical to the picture. The kid sees that a lot of people are doing this, only some are selling the pictures an getting money for them. The next day the artist walks into the kid's school room and tells the teacher to take down and burn the picture the child made because the artist copyrighted it. How do you think this kid felt about the artist after that? The kid works for hours to make the picture look so good, then the artist comes in and makes the teacher BURN it? I know how I would feel, hate. I wouldn't like the artist AT ALL! I would rip up all the things I bought from the artist and NEVER buy anything from them AGAIN.
This has actually happened before! In a way, the story is just a metaphor. The teacher: The Scratch Team, from the MIT lab. The boy: a scratcher named 124scratcher. The artist: you. You told The Scratch Team to take down ONE project by 124scratcher which was actually protected by Fair Use. The scratchers project was educational, shared, and was nonprofit. This means the project was fully legal. However, you decided to tell the Scratch Team to take it off. This was evil of you to do, you could have gone to a profitable website which had a Namco game and told THEM to take it off, but you targeted a children's website which was educational and nonprofit.
If you don't like their project being on, why give DMCA notices to everyone who has made a game on the internet, just Google search Pac-Man and you will get over 25,300,000 results, now you can start clicking on links and finding ones that go against what you want. Also go to http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 87&p=1 to see many Scratchers protesting against NAMCO, so why wait? Do it now if you really care, otherwise, one educational project taken off even when it is legal? Just think about it.

Tell me what you think. 

Evil is very strong.

What they did was very strong. Evil describes it very well.

Sure. Post it on the petition thread, please .