J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
Guys calm down, no need to start a flame war over a game...
[Important!] Dreamtown Stealing!!!
- Thread starter Muffie
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I just dropped by to see if there were any people talking about their experiences if they had their dream towns stolen and I have to ask... why do so many people here think that you need to register a copyright for it to be illegal for someone to copy something you've created?
Copyright applies to works as soon as you create them, regardless of whether you've registered or shared them or not. Registering copyright is just supposed to be official proof that you can use in court, but even if you don't do that, your work is still copyrighted.
See: http://copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register (for the US)
http://europa.eu/youreurope/busines...tm#sweden_en_protecting-intellectual-property (for the EU)
In the case of a dream town, it might be tricky where default game items are concerned but as far as I can tell, a custom design would be your copyright. You also would not have to register it unless you wished to be extra safe in case you had to take someone to court over it.
I'm not attacking anyone with this or trying to start another flame war, just pointing this out since I've seen the idea that copyright has to be registered to be valid pop up a lot in the last few pages, even though copyright actually applies to works the moment they're created.
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J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
Just asking, if somebody copies your dream town, does it affects you actual town or not? example they moved the town hall, will it effect your map or just their version of it? just wondering...
infinikitten
big old brat tbh
omg bringing copyright into this
I'm dying rn
I'm dying rn
Thank you for pointing it out.
Just to sum everything up: the only thing that might be compromised out of someone copying someone else's dream town is the original creator's feelings. The original town itself will not be affected in any way. Some of us may not care for the act, but there have also been cases where it has happened to others and they felt their efforts in creating their perfect towns belittled.
Yes the hack can be put to good use such as retrieving lost corrupted files, but no towns are being stolen in this kind of scenario.
Because user-created content falls into the category that is impossible to have any kind of legal protection, as in you would not sue the perpetrator, the only way to stop it is to have no toleration of such act and to keep the method to yourself if you happen to know.
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J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
Grow up please....
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
Here's a question I forgot to ask. If they take your dream town, does your town get removed from the server, or do they just get a copy of it? Also, if they edited it, does it only edit your copy, or it ruins your town too?
nothing changes within your town at all. It's basically just copying it and nothing else. Your town doesn't get removed from the server either.
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
That's a good thing if the original copy remains unaffected. But I should still care if they copy dream towns.
Oh, and hearing about Nintendo's dream town being stolen, that sounds horrible.
Yeah, lanternflies ontumblr r got hers stolen and was really upset about it even though it didn't actually affect her town. The person was cruel to her and didn't take credit for it but rubbed it in her face and everything.
I pretty sure ninty doesn't give two craps though I may be wrong. They don't seem to be acknowledging any of this stuff.
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J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
that being done to their town you would think they would at least try to stop this from happening! This is just people being plan lazy and can't be bothered to make their own town so steal someone else's just for fun! That is just sad...
I brought it up because I kept seeing people (even in the last page or so) talking about copyright in a way that was inaccurate.
I don't see why Nintendo would care. Considering the content of Nintendo's official dream towns, a proliferation of them would only act as free advertising for other Nintendo products. And Nintendo's already patched the browser exploit that makes this possible. It's only possible to copy dream towns if you haven't updated your 3DS.
J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
I update my 3ds whenever a update is available so i guess i'm safe for now... and besides that is not the point of my comment and it doesn't matter anyway its just a comment....
No, that does not protect you. Just because you've updated doesn't mean your safe.
J e s s i c a
Too Fabulous for you ~
Like i said if you read my comment i said "so i guess i'm safe for now..." do i need to say anymore? anyway i don't have a dream address so i am safe actually...
You misunderstand. It's impossible for you to copy towns because you've updated. The update does nothing to "protect" your dream town.
MightyMunchlax
Senior Member
Tbh, so long as it isn't affecting my game in anyway, I don't care if people steal my DA. I mean, sure it's lazy, rude and dishonest, but ultimately these people obviously aren't very creative if they have to steal from someone else's creative mind, so at the end of the day who's the real winner here? They won't be able to steal forever, so it'll catch up to them.
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