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author=DBAce9Aura
http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-has-another-internet-bill-that-records-you-247-20210264/Looks like it's Round Two for internet regulation bills.

GODDAMMIT TEXAS, WHY THE BLUE BLOODY BLAZES DO YOU KEEP VOTING FOR THIS LAMAR SMITH GUY?!!!

HE EVEN LOOKS LIKE THE SORT OF TOOL WHO'D KEEP DOING THIS SHIT!!
...JUST FOR THE LULZ!




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WHAT THE HELL KIND OF NAME IS LAMAR FOR A NERDY WHITE GUY ANYWAY?!









(JEEZ, MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK NOW)

The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

author=TheChosenFew
Alright, I have the rest except for "Dark World III".
Now, I am looking for all the demos of "Kinetic Cipher". I have Kinetic Cipher #8 and Kinetic Cipher (Again) v4.5. I want the rest.
Also, I want a different version of Shades, since, that version has a script or something running that makes a pop-up box come up every time you leave a room. I know there is a version that doesn't have it, cause I used to have it on my old computer. Also, I think Raiju made another game, or a sequel to Shades. I would like that also. =)

Andredane Demo
http://www.mediafire.com/?ouzs8lm4dc3g45x

Lunatic Gaming Chaingame
http://www.mediafire.com/?5xsy7j4651yqf62

Path To Oblivion 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?0dcd3ht7yjqkd2a

Only Path to Oblivion 2 is playable.

Andredane is just an exe file, all the other files the game needs are missing.

Lunatic Gaming Chaingame the zip file is corrupt.
Viewing the contents shows that while it has all the map files, it's missing the map tree and database file, and without those, the game cannot be salvaged.

Do you recall where you found Lunatic Gaming Chaingame? Maybe the Wayback Archive has a copy of it that is complete.

At any rate, thanks for Path To Oblivion 2.

author=Darken
GEE THANKS AMERICA

DON'T BLAME US. WE DON'T CONTROL OUR GOVERNMENT (anymore).

FILESONIC NO LONGER ALLOWS FILESHARING

author=ankylo
I think everyone should pitch in to help SegNin buy a new keyboard, his caps lock key is obviously broken.
ONLY THE TOPIC TITLES HAVE BEEN ALL CAPS

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NOW SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE

FILESONIC NO LONGER ALLOWS FILESHARING

If you try to download from a FileSonic link, you will receive this message:

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager."

So, for those of you who have your games hosted on FileSonic, you need to re-upload it to a different host or file sharing service. You may be able to retrieve your game if you can log in and get it from your file manager.

MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS

PEOPLE, PLEASE STOP SPREADING AROUND WORD THAT MEGAUPLOAD IS BACK OR NOT COMPLETELY DOWN.

Because those sites are fakes!

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-back-120120/

MegaUpload Back? Don’t Be Fooled by Scammers

A few hours after MegaUpload was taken down by the feds the first scammy replacements start to surface.

Tens of thousands of people are visiting these “revived” MegaUpload sites, which have nothing to do with MegaUpload.

If you see a site that looks like MegaUpload, it doesn’t mean that the popular cyberlocker is back.

There is NO official MegaUpload replacement online and it’s highly doubtful that there will be one anytime soon.

So don’t send ad impressions to these sites, or open yourself up to a phishing scam.

Sure, there are plenty of alternatives to MegaUpload, but MegaUpload itself is not back.

The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

author=Karpuz
Does anyone have these games?

Andredane
Blue Gaia - The Demon & The Spyglass
Dark World III
Fighter 1 - The Witches Key
Infinite Crusade
Lunatic Gaming Chaingame
Notes on the Second Mellynd War (old version)
Path To The Oblivion 2
Rainbow Nightmare - Prologue
Ridiculous
Shades - Chapter 0 - Grey
The Last Of The Fer'ek
The Tower - Demo
Whispered Cries

Any links would be appreciated.

I have all but 4 of them.

Aftermath (v.0.5)
http://www.mediafire.com/?llmcl3rbihdsi8v

Blue Gaia - The Demon & The Spyglass
http://www.mediafire.com/?47lsd1dpn35hlnl

Fighter 1 - Witch's Key
http://www.mediafire.com/?osea2a0aa9z2l4n

Infinite Crusade
http://m2kbrothers.com/files/Crusade.zip

Notes on the Second Mellynd War (v2.0)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mxyhdjbpvi0xxrb

Rainbow Nightmare Prologue
http://www.mediafire.com/?q9nwp99js8etdmy

Ridiculous (by ktac)
http://www.mediafire.com/?a2b6a39m23rrb3r

Shades - Chapter 0 - Grey
http://www.mediafire.com/?dts94s6r335qw4g

The Last of the Fere'k
http://www.mediafire.com/?eu79yinbod2blih

The Tower
http://www.mediafire.com/?bjy5rqjdltqvbi4

Whispered Cries
http://www.mediafire.com/?os9jja8jhdoe15c

MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS

author=Sailerius
author=SegNin
Nobody is going to care about using sprites (falls under Fair Use).
This is false. Fair use is for purposes like education and parody, and only allows you to use a small portion of the original work. If you wanted to use ripped sprites and claim 'fair use,' you wouldn't be able to use enough of the sprite for it to be a usable game asset. That's the whole point.


You are using a small portion of the original work--a game is far more than just its sprites.

It is educational--you're learning how to make an RPG which entails graphics design, writing, and for the newer RM's possibly even scripting, etc. People have actually submitted RM games as class projects.

And some fan-games are parodies.

Finally, you're not profiting from the games monetarily, and there's no intent to deprive any of the copyright holders of any potential profits. So, the worst that could happen is that they'll ask you to remove your game from circulation (like they did to Calunio with Marvel Brothel)

Think about this: Newsgrounds and other such sites has a ton of flash videos and games that make heavy use of game sprites. And there've been plenty of rom hacks and fan-games made...and nobody has ever gotten into trouble over any of them--with the lone exception of the Chrono Ressurection team who got C&D when they revealed their plans to create a remake of Chrono Trigger in 3-D. Of course, what no one knew was that Square planned to later release their own remake of Chrono Trigger in 3D on the NDS. And before you bring up the Crimson Echoes C&D, that one was FAKED.

Point is, no one cares about your crappy (or even not crappy) amateur freeware game--unless you make a game where their intellectual property is prostituting itself. And the game starts to get noticed by everyone. Then there might be issues.

MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS

I PUT IT IN ALL CAPS TO MAKE IT MORE NOTICEABLE
Guess that wasn't reaallly necessary.

Anyway...Here's the government's case against Megaupload.

SOURCE: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

...But the government asserts that Megaupload merely wanted the veneer of legitimacy, while its employees knew full well that the site's main use was to distribute infringing content. Indeed, the government points to numerous internal e-mails and chat logs from employees showing that they were aware of copyrighted material on the site and even shared it with each other. Because of this, the government says that the site does not qualify for a “safe harbor” of the kind that protected YouTube from Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit.

For instance, the “abuse tool” allegedly does not remove the actual file being complained about by a rightsholder. Instead, it only removes a specific Web address linked to that file—but there might be hundreds of such addresses for popular content.

In addition, the government contends that everything about the site has been doctored to make it look more legitimate than it is. The “Top 100” download list does not “actually portray the most popular downloads,” say prosecutors, and they claim that Megaupload purposely offers no site-wide search engine as a way of concealing what people are storing and sharing through the site.

Megaupload employees apparently knew how the site was being used. When making payments through its “uploader rewards” program, employees sometimes looked through the material in those accounts first. "10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)," said one of these notes. (The DMCA does not provide a "safe harbor" to sites who have actual knowledge of infringing material and do nothing about it.)

In a 2008 chat, one employee noted that "we have a funny business... modern days pirates :)," to which the reply was, "we're not pirates, we're just providing shipping servies to pirates :)."

Employees send each other e-mails saying things like, “can u pls get me some links to the series called ‘Seinfeld’ from MU ," since some employees did have access to a private internal search engine.

Employees even allegedly uploaded content themselves, such as a BBC Earth episode uploaded in 2008.

Other messages appear to indicate that employees knew how important copyrighted content was to their business. Content owners had a specific number of takedown requests they could make each day; in 2009, for instance, Time Warner was allowed to use the abuse tool to remove 2,500 links per day. When the company requested an increase, one employee suggested that "we can afford to be cooperative at current growth levels"— implying that if growth had not been so robust, takedowns should be limited. Kim Dotcom approved an increase to 5,000 takedowns a day.

Employees also had access to analytics. One report showed that a specific linking site had “produce 164,214 visits to Megaupload for a download of the copyrighted CD/DVD burning software package Nero Suite 10. The software package had the suggested retail price of $99.” The government's conclusion: Megaupload knew what was happening and did little to stop it
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MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS

author=Xenomic
So now my question is, what is the next best thing from Megaupload now that it's gone? I find it relatively annoying that ALL of my files were on there for my game, and now they're suddenly gone. I'm going with Mediafire right now, but I know that after some time the files get purged, and the uploader is so goddamn slow...

MediaFire, 4Shared, RapidShare, FileServe, FilSonic and Wupload seem to be the next best ones. Probably out of that group MediaFire & 4Shared are the best.

There's also GameFront.

(Btw, 4Shared is being sued by a company to force it to reveal the identity of whoever stored what the company claims are confidential documents in their 4Shared folder) http://torrentfreak.com/4shared-sued-to-reveal-identify-of-infringing-users-120104/

author=ZPE
SegNin, please say you backed up all those games on your own hard drive. =/

@Xenomic: Use RMN's own hosting for your games?

Don't worry, I've got them--most of them are stored on 2 hard drives.

MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS

author=Liberty
Wonder if the way back machine would work on MU?)
It won't.

For one thing, it's crawler bots would have to get past the countdown timer and CAPTCHA to download anything.