Important Changes to Denial effective immediately

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:24 pm

By order of U.S. District Court I have been asked to announce changes for the Denial website and forum. It is my understanding that we have been illegally exchanging intellectual property rights with one another in the form of amateur game programs and demos.

We are no longer allowed to give away these programs for free. From now on user-created programs may only be provided to other members with a verified monetary exchange. You are now required to charge at the very least a nominal fee for any program you have written and would like to make available to the community using PayPal or other approved services.

These rules apply to any program the contains ideas or visual imagery that appear similar to any preexisting idea. That includes software that requires the use of vintage joysticks, keyboards, or monitors/televisions. This also includes game mechanics such as the use of "jumping", "mazes", or "shooting". You did not invent these ideas or devices, so you are not allowed to make use of them without the expressed written consent of their respective inventors.

Thank you.

ajordison · Post by **ajordison** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:07 pm

A**** ****! (Do I win a prize?)

Your post has been edited because you have violated an intellectual property right of Hallmark, Inc.

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:24 pm

Nice One Jeff.

Still waiting for the R-Type game for the Vic

ajordison · Post by **ajordison** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:32 pm

Curse you Hallmark!

English Invader · Post by **English Invader** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:32 pm

That's the best April Fool's Joke I've seen in a long while.

It took a while for the penny to drop. I guess if it was real it would have been all over the internet.

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:58 am

Yes, I agree, for a while I tought it was true

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:06 am

I was starting my angry answer to your post before reading the others...

Post by **joshuadenmark** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:12 am

Jeff-20 wrote:By order of U.S. District Court I have been asked to announce changes for the Denial website and forum. It is my understanding that we have been illegally exchanging intellectual property rights with one another in the form of amateur game programs and demos.

We are no longer allowed to give away these programs for free. From now on user-created programs may only be provided to other members with a verified monetary exchange. You are now required to charge at the very least a nominal fee for any program you have written and would like to make available to the community using PayPal or other approved services.

These rules apply to any program the contains ideas or visual imagery that appear similar to any preexisting idea. That includes software that requires the use of vintage joysticks, keyboards, or monitors/televisions. This also includes game mechanics such as the use of "jumping", "mazes", or "shooting". You did not invent these ideas or devices, so you are not allowed to make use of them without the expressed written consent of their respective inventors.

Thank you.

Nice one , ha ha

eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:08 am

In french, April fool's day is called poisson d'avril which literally means "April's fish".

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:07 pm

Since SOPA and PIPA, I've been seeing gaming forums shut down everywhere. Almost all of them had an ISO section, but instead of removing the section the entire forum was closed.

English Invader · Post by **English Invader** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:47 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:Since SOPA and PIPA, I've been seeing gaming forums shut down everywhere. Almost all of them had an ISO section, but instead of removing the section the entire forum was closed.

I thought that legislation was stopped after the Wikipedia Blackout because Congress was flodded with protest letters.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:45 pm

eslapion wrote:

In french, April fool's day is called poisson d'avril which literally means "April's fish".

In Sweden we say "April April din dumma sill, jag kan lura dig vart jag vill" which means "April April you stupid herring, I can fool you to where ever I want to".

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:18 pm

Nice one, Jeff.

I was wondering, "Does the U.S. District Court really have nothing better to do???"

Spectrum · Post by **Spectrum** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:42 am

Really awesome, Jeff!
I've to admit that I was totally FOOLED and that I believed it.
Only reading the comments I began to feel better...

Great!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:55 am

Haha! I wasn't fooled at all. I stopped reading after two sentences when I got that it was a joke...

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