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Originally Posted by FreeFull
What about the people who don't know about the patch?
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What about people right now who still don't know they need to patch their game to play online?
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You're just jealous because you don't have 1.23.
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Wrong. I have both versions.
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NOT TRUE. If you don't have hi-speed, it takes forever to download either. Plus, it's illegal, and some people still have something called a conscience, ya know?
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Leave your computer on overnight? Besides, there was a patch that actually changed 1.23 to 1.24 although i'm not sure what happened to it. I doubt it would be very hard to make another one.
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Well, on public boards I never give anyone the link but on MSN, in TSF and 1.20 servers and in real life I'm spreading the links too ;p You are right, it's a little bit pointless to tell people they shouldn't pirate since the full version game is nowhere to be found (most of these online shopping sites offer the OEM versions instead of the registered version). I doubt if that's legal too.
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lol, and you're lecturing me about moral conscience? I also find it funny how many people are bringing up the "moral issues" even though this site seems to put forth the idea that it doesn't care what you choose to do outside of it.
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Well, I don't play online, but yeah, I probably would.
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hopefully it's just you, but if there are really other people like this, i'd say good riddance.
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This is where I thought: "Shut up and do research." 1.25 would make fixes to 1.23 AND 1.24, therefor being an actual different version than 1.24. 1.25 was never meant to be a "free" 1.24. Get your facts straight and then lay this (-) on us.
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Someone said that 1.25 could be the unifying version of 1.23 and 1.24. If that was the case, then anyone who has 1.25 should have the same things regardless of what version they updated from. This is common sense for preventing compatibility issues.
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As Torkell said, it is the webhost's policy, and it is a perfectly reasonable position. It does not matter that Epic would probably never spend their resources pursuing a tiny group of people distributing a game that was a market flop. The hosts would do well to deny service to us if they knew such things were going on. If they did not, then they too would be liable to Epic.
The administrators and managers of J2O have put in ridiculous amounts of time, energy, and money into this site. Yes, we all want new players and publicity for this game, but it is simply foolish to distribute the game freely here. They do it all for you without asking anything in return except to follow a few simple rules. If you, as an individual, choose to distribute the game illegally, then there's nothing the administrators here may do assuming that it is not connected with J2O. Moreover, your insistence is not going to help your cause, as I am certainly positive that this rule will not change.
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Assuming that the host would even bother to check, the worst that would happen is the site would receive a "cease and desist" letter. But even if this site absolutely refuses to post a link, it does not change the fact that a line of text is easy to spread. There's PMs, IRC, and the game servers themselves.
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Okay so what's good with 1.24 except annoyingly large levels and an additional character who sucks even harder than Jazz does?
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It's not about what each version has and doesnt have. It's about getting everyone to use the same version. If adding a new character and a few new levels is all that it takes, then there shouldn't be anything to complain about.
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So this site (at least many of its download files) is, in fact, already committing copyright infringement.
It's just a matter of degree -- for instance, if jazz2 were still being sold, the mere distribution of a modified executable could hardly be argued to have caused sales loss.
The holier-than-thou "we won't do it because it is illegal" attitude should be abandoned and replaced with some common sense.
That said, while the current policy of this site certainly allows illegal activities, I wouldn't say it is immoral. In fact, I think it is a reasonable compromise between legality and the interests of the community.
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Exactly. I figured certain files on this site weren't legal anyways. And I bet nobody was even bother going to ask permission to use jazz content to make that machinima thing either. Also, i doubt buying jazz from some obscure shopping site or ebay is even going to put a penny in epic's pocket at this point.