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Default DMCA being over used? - 14-05-2010

Evony has hired a bunch of lawyers to throw the DMCA at some bot developers for the game Evony.

Such bots include:
Evobot
AutoEvony (Evobot conitnuation)
Evony Blaster
EvonyAutoIt
etc...

In the letters the developers and site hosts recieved include the DMCA stating that the bots are using copyrighted material in their programs.
However, the bot developers responded by saying, there were no copyrighted material in their bots. None of the same images, nothing. The only thing that was similar was the program structure.

Evobot.com was shut down
Google took Evobot off of their open source code website
and SourceForge won't house the evobot program on their space.

How can any bot be safe if people are just gonna throw the DMCA around and scare everyone with it?


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