That's comforting. I also noticed it was not an American company, who's
laws are the only ones I'm even halfway familiar with. I think it was...
Norweigan? So of course, they'll also have a bit of trouble fighting
various sites that aren't in their country's jurisdiction.

In a nutshell though, it just sounds like this company is kinda trying to
just go "mine! mine! you can't play unless I say it's okay" in a rather
obnoxious attempt to profit on their trademark. I would compare it to SCO
vs IBM.. Good from a stockholder's point of view, but completely moronic,
greedy and pointless from everyone else's.


>From: "Andrew Priest" <apriest--netidea.com>
>Reply-To: AlternateReality-From-barrick75-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
>>Subject: RE: RE: Commodore 64 returns!
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:13:56 -0700
>
>
>I wonder just how much they can do though. I mean, while they could prevent
>someone from using the Commodore 64 name in a way that indicates official
>blessing, that doesn't prevent people from making websites about the C64.
>There is fair use after all. And emulators are perfectly legal as long as
>they don't make use of copyrighted code. I believe the main support would
>be
>Atari vs. Coleco over the Gemini, and Sony vs. VGS regarding
>reverse-engineering the bios. As long as the emu didn't include said
>copyrighted code, or use the Commodore 64 name, they should be alright.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>After reading this article, I have come to the conclusion that it's BAD
>news, not good news.
>
>The article never actually mentions that Tulip is starting to make C64
>systems. And it hints that Microsoft products will be running, which
>doesn't make sense... what it sounds like to me is that they are going to
>start chasing down all those emulator makers and suing them for intellecual
>property piracy, and then forcing people to pay for Tulip's exclusive
>emulator.
>
>It sounds like they are also going to create an official Commodore
>website... which may be good for people who are C64 junkies to have one
>single place to go to.. but we all know that that's not very practical,
>everything C64 cannot be hosted on one single site. But then that they are
>going to start charging license fees to some 300 other companies that do
>something Commodore related, which will probably force a lot of them to
>shut
>
>down....
>
>So tell me.. am I reading the article wrong? Because if I'm not.. I am
>suddenly a lot happier that I am an Atari enthusiast instead of a Commodore
>enthusiast.
>
>
>
>
>


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