Put actual figures in Uplink

TheCheat · Postby **TheCheat** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:27 am

Ok a friend of mine and I think it would be really great if the next Uplink had people like Bill Gates (lucifer) and Linus Torvald (god lol j/k) in the game as well as major corporations like Microsoft and so forth. I think it would be fun to hack Bill Gates and Microsoft and others. I know that there would probably be a copyright problem with that, but hey it's only a suggestion.

TheCheat · Postby **TheCheat** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:29 am

Oh and who can forget Microsoft's toy monkey Steve Balmer lol "Developers, Developers, Developers..... heart attack"

Zig · Postby **Zig** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:38 am

Haha, yes. Open up Bill's bank account and withdraw a couple trillion dollars, change his criminal record to say 48 counts of prostitution, and 21 of possession of crack. Muahahaha.

Miah · Postby **Miah** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:51 am

and pimping

Rkiver · Postby **Rkiver** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:53 pm

Well while you can add Microsoft to the game by downloading the M$ lan from Modlink, this was a third party addon. If Introversion where to make Uplink 2, which they aren't, if they included Microsoft they would be leaving themselves open to prosecution, as they would need to get permission to use the name as it is copyrighted.

Agent Zerro · Postby **Agent Zerro** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:06 pm

The ideea is good, but why stop only at Microsoft? Think BIG! I'm saiyng IBM, Apple and so on. I've posted an ideea a couple of weeks ago, i don't know if you managed to read it. I thought it whould be cool if you could hack the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NASA. Make it real difficult, but make it. What do you think?

shocks tk · Postby **shocks tk** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:41 pm

yea, if you did something like that you would have to add some mad security and think up new ways of getting caught, because I don't think the stuff already in the game would be sufficient enough for such a difficult task...but yea, that would be cool.

Spectere_uplink · Postby **Spectere_uplink** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:03 am

Haha, yes. Open up Bill's bank account and withdraw a couple trillion dollars, change his criminal record to say 48 counts of prostitution, and 21 of possession of crack. Muahahaha.

and pimping

...and, of course, breaking parole.

(Edited by Spectere at 2:03 am on Feb. 8, 2004)

Yajirobe · Postby **Yajirobe** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:44 pm

Macrosoft would be cool though, or Massivesoft and Bill Gatts. Can't get in trouble for that!

Revelationhacker · Postby **Revelationhacker** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:25 pm

Hey, if they would put Kevin Mittnick in the game as a first class hacker of the history. Hey, remember what he did?? Cool, ain't it?

Darksun · Postby **Darksun** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:09 pm

Yajirobe, well, you probably could, as the MikeRoweSoft case showed

compsec · Postby **compsec** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:03 pm

First, ya'll gotta get out of your heads that changing a single letter in a name will leave you safe from prosecution by that company.

By keeping a SIMILAR name, and the same THEME of what that name entails, that company or person can CERTAINLY sue you.

They only can not, if you are protected under the parody law.
You CAN legally parody someone or something.
But you must prove, if taken to court that you're reference to them is a parody.

Which, legal precedence has only shown comes from a comedy parody.
Example, the producers of James Bond sued the makers of Austin Powers over the "gold-finger" character.
But Austin Powers producers were able to prove, that since Austin Powers is a comedy it's protected under the parody act.

Uplink is *not* a parody. It's a game, that while fictional, takes itself in a serious sense.
Leisure Suit Larry of the 80's and early 90's, THAT was a parody game.
Uplink, is not.
So you change the name to Bill Gatts, or MassiveSoft, and represent them as a wealthy programmer/owner of a huge software producing company, or in the case of MassiveSoft, the company itself, and Billy boy and company will sue Uplink's ass off.

Ahdinko · Postby **Ahdinko** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:10 pm

Quote: from Darksun on 9:09 pm on Feb. 16, 2004[br]Yajirobe, well, you probably could, as the MikeRoweSoft case showed

But didnt the owner of the site get payed things to take it off? Not sued to take it off, the owner of the website got a brand new shiney xbox and some other goodies to change the name of the website, but first of all they offered him 10 dollars (since when was bill gates getting that tight with money?)

beno · Postby **beno** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:32 pm

you could do it without copyright restrictions if you:
1. Ask the copyright owner
2. Keep it quiet
3. distribute for free

linux does not have much copyright over it so you could probably get away anyway for that

Deepsmeg · Postby **Deepsmeg** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:46 pm

Quote: from beno on 3:32 pm on Feb. 28, 2004[br]you could do it without copyright restrictions if you:
1. Ask the copyright owner
2. Keep it quiet
3. distribute for free

linux does not have much copyright over it so you could probably get away anyway for that

1 True. Ask them "Do you mind if we include you in a game that will probably be construed as libellous?"
2 Bullshit. If I do something wrong and keep it secret, I get in as much trouble, if not more than doing it and shouting my head off...
3 Yeah. Sure. Whatever. Keep on telling yourself that.
If a Linux started going round claiming to be made by MicroSoft, or MikeRoweSoft, or whatever, they can't use the "It's free..." argument...

PLEASE grow up and get a brain...

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