DC Emu.com hacked...

DC Emu.com hacked... ?

Just received this email from the admin there. Here's the details:

Anyone also get this email?

 

And here's the other half of the story - apparently there's a beef going on between 007Cheater and EVERY OTHER STAFF MEMBER. Apparently, he's been pulling the organisation down to the detriment of the group just so he could keep 100% control.

It wasn't hacked - it's just the staff have upped and left him and he feels he's been cheated.

Here is the open letter:
http://dcemulation.org/sitenotice.png

and here is the supposed 'illegal copy' which appears to be a far more legal and just site in my opinion:
http://dcemulation.org/

EDIT: YAY! 500 posts! I'll need to get me some celebratory cake!

 

I haven't been to the site in years anyway, so I don't know the full scope of things.

 

Why are videogamers so vengeful?

 

Cuz their feelings get hurt or their sense of domination (which doesn't exist) is threatened.

 

epenis size matters!

 

I'm not supprised people turned against '007Cheater'. I'm sure a lot of people put effort into the dcemulation website and just because he happens to own the domain, doesn't mean he can keep holding it over peoples heads again and again.

 

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=268926#post268926

 

The only reason I had that site bookmarked was for running SNES games on my DC. But since PSP, DS, and GP2X can do that....but of course there are other reasons someone else might want to go there though.

 

Sorry, but there is no cake, the cake is a lie

 

'Let me put it like this. Imagine that you have 1 cake and I have three cakes. This is like that. Except, you have no cakes and I have 3 PS3s.

Also, I have this cake.'

 

LRR FTW

 

Actually I think that is exactaly what he can do. Assembler could do anything he wants with this site, he is the one that pays for it.

 

Assembler also maintains this site and doesn't act like he's God (most of the time).

Copying the site to a different domain so that they're free to do what they want with it, seeing as they're the ones who worked on it, seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

Uhhh... I don't think so. I don't know exactly how thier organization is set up, but whoever owns a company is the one who gets to make the decesions. Doesn't matter how much work you put in to a particular project, if you are under someone else's employ, any work you do or anything you create on company time belongs to that company. Personally I think this law goes a little too far - sometimes a company can try to sue you for something you wrote, invented, or whatever on your own time as long as you were employed by them, by claiming that whatever resources you had were indirectly provided by them.

So barring any specific agreement the site owner may have had with his staff, all thier work belongs to him now - all the code, all thier content, pictures, articles, whatever. If he wants to shut it down and turn it into a fetish site where women dressed in furry clown suits violate each other with oversized meat products, that's his right. The staff cannot just snake his entire site and host it at a different place and claim it's theirs. Afraid 007cheater is going to win this one.

What they should be doing is making a competing site, with all the same content but under a different brand name. Beat him at his own game.

 

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I believed it was legal. I just think it should be.

 

Unless there is a specific contract or agreement (there is no indication either way of any such thing), or anything submitted was done under some compensated work policy (sorry, I forget the legal term...haven't done anything with my business law class since school (read: 2005)), 007cheater has nothing for a case.

Also, be careful in what you refer to as a company, as there is an actual legal definition of what a company is, and there seems to be no indication of what type of company it is (LLC, etc.). Based on my understanding (limited as it is...), it was nothing more than a comunity with 007cheater as its leader.

 

no need to make things complex.

if there wasnt any oral or written agreement to the contrary, evey person's contribution is their own, as simple as that.

they layout and URL of course belong to the legal leaser of the url. What he can claim , if he goes to court, is a share of money equal to the goodwill of the site (ie the reputation of the website, with him holding the url)

 

I don't know about that, he could try to make the case that since he published all submitted materials on his site, then it belongs to him now. But you're right, if we're referring to work that was done free of charge and submitted on a board or forum, he might not have a case. Articles and information published in a forum or bulletin board is not considered proprietary unless theres a clause in the user liscence agreement you sign that says so. But things he published in article form on the site, in which staff members were paid for, he has a case in claiming as his own.

For sure he has a case for ownership of the site name and domain, even if he doesn't have it trademarked. At the very least his detractors are going to have to change the name of their new website.