Chronoshift – A fan project that was supposed to restore League of Legends time of green grass (according to developers, this is the area of 2010). The project was presented to the public in March 2020. Then Riot asked enthusiasts to voluntarily close the idea because Chronoshift contradicts the legal rules of the company. Enthusiasts did not obey, and in the end everything spilled into a rather dirty story.
Believe Riot, Chronoshift violated the third paragraph of legal rules describing the boundaries of the permitted for fans (and simplified to the human language): “Unauthorized games or applications are prohibited. We do not give permission to use our franchise in games or applications ".
Authors Chronoshift did not obey and continued production somewhere on the sidelines of Discord. Last weekend they received an official letter demanding to stop the creation of the project, close the site and transfer Riot All achievements, including modified customers Lol and source code. How emphasized Riot In a letter, these are standard requirements that are always put forward in such cases.
When to keep a closure Chronoshift got to Reddit, there are actions Riot It was entitled as "extortion". For example, before sending a legal letter, someone ZED from the security department Riot contacted the project developer. Apparently, ZED was supposed to set the question of the world, but it could not do it: at first Zed spoke with the developer Chronoshift rather polite, but then suddenly began to conduct an intimidation tactic.
Zed stated that Riot There are archives of all chats from the authors Discord server Chronoshift (even one of those sections that they deleted), and arranged undisguised aggression: “You clearly invested a lot of work in Chronoshift, But I assure you, the chill will surely overtake you ".
If you believe the screenshot with correspondence, the developer Chronoshift answered courteously, did not show resistance and did not give reasons for aggression. Theory: There is a pause in the dialogue for half an hour, during which something happened that Zed considered an attempt to cover the traces.
PC Gamer gives a representative comments Riot Games. He confirmed that the correspondence in Discord was real, and the company was “disappointed with the direction of the conversation” from Zed. A separate internal trial will conduct a security department with a security officer.
In the end the team Chronoshift I surrendered, but finally left a message on the project website:
We are incredibly disappointed with how Riot I decided to deal with the situation. Instead of going towards and start negotiations about the future of the project, they arranged something that can be interpreted as an attempt to cash in for free at our work and arrange a trial against us.
As the creators assure, they worked on Chronoshift About five years.
Some users put forward the version that Riot He wants to launch his version of "vanilla" Lol And maybe take Chronoshift as a basis. But the official representative clarified that the company’s position on this topic has not changed since 2017.
In 2017, the head of creative development Riot Greg Street (Greg Street) said that the resurrection of very old versions League of Legends It will turn out to be extremely laborious, and the return will be weak – most likely, gamers are quickly disappointed in nostalgic memories and abandon this assembly of the game. However, just the same Blizzard once spoke of "vanilla" World of Warcraft, And now Wow Classic Lives and flourishes.
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I correctly understood everything, dudes for 5 years without any permission sawed the modification, they ran into them, and now they are building victims from themselves? Poor thing.
Well, let’s go, following the example of Blizzard:
Lineage https://netabetcasino.co.uk/withdrawal/ 2 Classic
Arch Age Classic.
Two pages list.
Mmm, and who prevented this “poor unhappy” offended to come up with something?
It’s funny to observe how people react to such news.
Square Enix closes the fan remake of Chrono Trigger – “uuuuuuuuuuuu, bitches”
Take Two closes mods on a card from RDR to GTA5 – “This is just a mod!"
Nintendo closes everything that is connected with their IP – “greedy Japanese!"
Warner Bros. patenting a generalized description of the Nemesis system – “Yes, how dare you!?"
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Riot covers the fan version of the vanilla lol – "So they need to, there is nothing to violate copying"
And the point here is not that someone violated the copy, but in double standards. And it seems to me, ironically, that people who themselves built a career are in fashion, which in the end also wanted to bring under a copy of the copy, the projects of other moders in the bud.
We are incredibly disappointed by how Riot decided to deal with the situation. Instead of going towards and start negotiations about the future of the project, they arranged something that can be interpreted as an attempt to cash in for free at our work and arrange a trial against us.
That is, these poor-nasads put a bolt on the user agreement and RITO rights to [b] league of legends [/b] ([i] which is not an open source, if anything is registered as a trademark [/i]), its universe and its characters, these same, the same, they score the second bolt, when they are even politely asking for them then to stop disgrace a year ago, and now the small simple developments ([. Here are these bastards of yours!
Well, the evil Buratino for yourself, and to expose yourself to a victim in this case is just mean.
Lol, the chronosifte in your opinion spiraled the server part or what? : D
They themselves wrote the server part.
As far as I understand, the main problem was just in the correspondence from the discord and the requirement to show the source. De Yurea has not yet used the sources of the authorship of Riot Games – there are no complaints about them about the code. Therefore, the requirements “A show/give your code” go in a clean forest for fucking. Especially given the very “correct” behavior of the employee (which is already dismantled for quotes).
The news is typical, the most important piece is not about what many squeezed out about the legal side. The guys consulted in advance with lawyers, it would be very stupid to really pour 5 years into the trash;
Regarding the fact that no one needs a lol ~ mid-season 2, to put it mildly, “put yourself in your pants” this time, the practice shows that the hypocrisy of the “off-developers” who, again, suddenly, turns out to be surprised that someone needs “Vanila/classic”; That which is now this goddess has turned … Further without scolding so that end.
It is only worth putting a changed client of legends league for free access, as you can already go to court and demand the closure of the converted game.
Well, if you put a client for free access, who shakes all this from official servers? Well, yes – even at the same time, the requirements “give us your source” will be sent by the court far and for a long time.
Riot asked enthusiasts to voluntarily close the idea because Chronoshift is contrary to the legal rules of the company. Enthusiasts did not obey, and in the end everything spilled into a rather dirty story
What they counted on, entering into confronts with personnel officers who passed hot spots?
Yeah, fans of Ritovites wretched news wrote the news, not otherwise)
I agree, the news is very engaged. The position of the second side is very superficially mentioned, it is not indicated that no laws (and not TOS) were violated by the authors of the project, and in general the reverse engineering is not prohibited. But the actions of RIT, namely, an attempt to take possession of the source code through blackmail and intimidation – is just a violation of the law (once again, not TOS).
Everything is so, you write absolutely right.
You want to sell a ruler to fans again or not?
If there is no law that directly contradicts the TOS, then the TOS is right, unless not?
Not quite – TOS has exactly zero legal force. Therefore, it is so difficult to hold all sorts of cheats and therefore most often they try to prove more than the fact of writing cheats (well, except China, there it has already penetrated the laws), but more pressed on the questions “and where did you get the source of protection” and so on and so on.
Why even after warning from Riot decided that they would carry them
Because technically they do not spread anything. The server and the client is written purely from scratch, and all assets are swinging directly from the Riot Games servers from open sources. And in fact, it comes out similarly to emulators of consoles of various. Which, by the way, are already legally recognized as legal, until their composition includes the original games codes and no laws were violated when writing.
But they seemed to write the server part. Since when did we have reverse engineering illegal?
Lineage 2 classic it also does not exist ?
If there is no law that directly contradicts the TOS, then the TOS is right, unless not? If the reverse engineering is “not prohibited” (that is, there is no law where “everyone has the right to reverse engineering” is written, but it’s just not said anywhere else), this does not mean that the company has no right to demand it.
I don’t know what lawyer they consulted with and why even after warning from Riot decided that they would carry them – there are a lot of cases when companies were given on the head and for less. If they think that the law is on their side, then they had to prepare for trial, because Riot obviously made it clear that she would defend themselves.
They do not even mask the fact that they based an object of someone else’s copyright. If I imagine everything correctly, then at least because of copyright the law will be on the side of Riot, because the characters and the universe that are used in Chronoshft are copying things.
that no one tried to fight with Nintendo, who has a long Kilstrik from fan projects.
There are 2 major reasons:
1. In order to fight with Nintedo, you need to have a staff of lawyers and money as much as Nintendo has. Just yes – most likely you are right, but to tighten the process of methods of a lot of methods, lawyers will take a lot for such a process, where do fans have these opportunities from the fans? That’s right – there are no them. So there is simply no chance to win.
2. Because the laws on copyright are such a damp … On the one hand, there is such a thing as Fair Use and its analogues, on the other, there is a direct right to stop the use of your IP for any purpose. And here it is not clear what is more applicable from this, t.To. it is written very cunningly and specifically leaving the opportunity to twist where you want.
And ask before you start doing something, not? Well, if they knew very well what they were going on and what it threatens, they should not seem to be surprised, all the more so since they had already received a warning. In addition, Lalka seems to live and live, and does not plan to bend yet.