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cheddargirl wrote:

Scratchthatguys wrote:

Here's a quote from an article on this:

warzone2000 (4 months ago | reply)

I sent the following letter to Namco legal counsel (at their main office address):

Dear Sirs,

I was amused to see you sending legal threats to little kids for programming:
www.flickr.com/photos/amonroy/4842331295/size s/l/

While I don't play games myself, things like this make it very easy to explain to children why they should never pay for software from companies such as yours. If kids buy Namco games, that money goes to lawyers, who in turn threaten more kids.

Thank you for helping provide more material that I can use to educate little kids about the ethical implications of respecting your intellectual property. I can explain to kids what happens to their money if they buy the game (the money goes to lawyers, who then threaten non-profits), and what happens if they don't buy the game (the money stays in their pockets, or better yet, gets donated to charitable causes).

Your random legal threats are most helpful. Please keep sending them. If we wish to banish the scourge of proprietary software, we do need more companies like yourselves to play the role of the villan as well as you do.

See, I'm gonna put this on my Scratch news series. Including this letter.

You know, I wonder if Namco even bothered to reply back to this.

Although, considering Namco's actions, I'm willing to bet they tossed it in the trash since it seems they don't really care about us. (

That's exactly the first thing I thought: they threw the note away.

Sure, I support.

bump.

We should all send a message here:
Namco's contact us

kimmy123 wrote:

pika100chu wrote:

We should all send a message here:
Namco's contact us

I sent a message.

Same

GlitchSprite wrote:

Dude why don't you just let this go already

It happened like a few months ago

We can all hate Namco in our own special way but other than that I don't see any real reason to take action

Would you say the same thing if they closed the entire Scratch site down?

kimmy123 wrote:

WindozeNT wrote:

GlitchSprite wrote:

Dude why don't you just let this go already

It happened like a few months ago

We can all hate Namco in our own special way but other than that I don't see any real reason to take action

Would you say the same thing if they closed the entire Scratch site down?

What if you found a better programming language?

Visual Basic 6. That's all I have to say. But still, I'd use Scratch more often if MIT would ditch the in-program uploader and go with an online uploader so the 70k dial-up "rule" could be destroyed so I can upload my projects. Unfortunately, no one has seen the logic in that yet, so as of right now until the uploading stuff is fixed and I can send in my projects, I proclaim VB6 as best programming language. Plus you can't compile Scratch-made apps to Windows' EXE or Mac's APP or Linux's...whatever it uses (*.DEB maybe? Or is that just for jailbroken iOS?).

Last edited by WindozeNT (2011-01-02 18:26:10)

bump.

^ Some remixes aren't even half worth it.

Is "bandai namco"  namco?

If they take down another pac-man project on scratch, just everyone contact them saying

So you took another PAC-MAN project on Scratch down? You once said to Andrés that you know scratch is about learning.

Try searching Pac-man on the web, and you'll find thousands of more-advanced versions of your game, more features than Scratch that is limited in features.

If you look more on Scratch, you'll see tons of projects that have copyrighted material and haven't been taken down.

Just let the kids on scratch learn, they like your products so they want to try making a remake. This is what gets them to learn how it works.

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