However, if I may be allowed (as someone who is not connected in any way to the running of Talk2Action), I would like to point out how ridiculous Left Behind Games is being in their aggressive and uncalled for action.

I have been reading computer game reviews and articles, both positive and negative, ever since the Internet started carrying them, and never before have I seen a case where a games company threatened to sue simply because they didn't like what someone had written about their game.

If Electronic Arts or Blizzard Entertainment were to start threatening to sue anyone who used their screenshots in a negative review, they would rightly be called out and castigated for their behaviour.  And I have never heard of a games company requiring permission to publish screenshots of their games in related articles.

Of course, the irony is that they're far too late.  The screenshots in question were written weeks ago and had long since been relegated to the site archives.  So all they have done with their bullying is drag the whole affair back to the front page of the site and in a manner people will see not as a reasonable protection of their copyright but as an attempt to bully a small (but increasingly influential) web site into submission.

(Note: If you feel my comment in any way compromises your agreement with LBG, then please feel free to remove it.  And you should probably lock the thread as I doubt I will be the only one to post about this.)

by tacitus on Sun Nov 12, 2006 at 01:10:39 AM EST

I think current events are likely overtaking this game anyway, and that it's likely to become a self-parody in short order.   As it should.

by montpellier on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 11:52:32 AM EST