IMPORTANT!!! They want to kill iMtG

Started by Piotr, January 31, 2012, 05:03:17 PM

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Piotr

In 1.22.1 I removed all copyrighted and trademarked content which may be considered not fair use or inline linking. If you know of a better way to make WotC stop and think about their stance regarding mobile MTG apps, please share it.

BlackJester

Well, I think that now, since iMtG is lawyer-proof, the battle is really on behalf of other devs and their apps. I don't like their actions, but I don't think it matters much anymore, IMHO.

Piotr

I would love to have the expansion symbols back.

Fenster

Quote from: Piotr on February 22, 2012, 11:45:05 AM
I would love to have the expansion symbols back.

Yeah it made me sad to not see the mana symbols and expansion symbols. Hopefully this will reach out to them somehow. And to get me wrong i was just trying to help. If this is foolproof i dont see what they could have on you.

Raven316

Quote from: Piotr on February 22, 2012, 11:45:05 AM
I would love to have the expansion symbols back.

I agree the mana symbols are nice where as the expansion symbols are a little confusing.... Better than nOthing

Rass

I'm just glad to be able to see the cards

Sammastin

Me too :) however, I thought the images were being censored?

Rass

Quote from: Sammastin on February 22, 2012, 09:54:55 PM
Me too :) however, I thought the images were being censored?

They are supposed to be if one happens to pop up while your looking thru this app close your eyes and get out of that page


Jkjk

Coffee Vampire

This has probs been said before but if you still see censored images after updating AND closing and oppening your eyes, {Purge} your images in database mantainence and you should be fine. :)

Piotr

The card images in versions prior to 1.22.1 were hosted by me (and in very old versions by magiccards.info), I was managing them and paying for the bandwidth. Arguably that was copyright infringement. Now they are shown from Gatherer and we should be safe according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

TheDevilMyself

Quote from: Piotr on February 23, 2012, 02:45:57 AM
The card images in versions prior to 1.22.1 were hosted by me (and in very old versions by magiccards.info), I was managing them and paying for the bandwidth. Arguably that was copyright infringement. Now they are shown from Gatherer and we should be safe according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

Im no lawyer, but...  If you can post the image of a card as you sell your crap on eBay then you should most definitely be able to host scanned images of your own vast card collection.  (also, gatherer doesn't always get it right as my friend and I noticed today)

Also also, I think you should look into my suggestion of hotlinking the expansion symbols from gatherer as well, or another site like it.  The mana symbols are fine, though.  I can live without them, but if they can be hotlinked too, then great!

Maybe not hotlink but initially linked from outside source then cached for future use...

Ah workarounds!


Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

I have been having a discussion about WOTC 🆚 IMTG for about a month now with JaCeBeLrEn, kvfertig, and Steelboy19, and I have to say we all think WOTC are being *insert extremely pride-desintigrating curse word here*s and should lay off. I mean come on, the app is here because we LIKE YOUR STUFF! We promote MTG! We're like a tribute band for magic! And what do we get? A bunch of threats and censorship. Assholes.

InfinitiveDivinity

Quote from: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on February 28, 2012, 09:51:38 PM
I have been having a discussion about WOTC 🆚 IMTG for about a month now with JaCeBeLrEn, kvfertig, and Steelboy19, and I have to say we all think WOTC are being *insert extremely pride-desintigrating curse word here*s and should lay off. I mean come on, the app is here because we LIKE YOUR STUFF! We promote MTG! We're like a tribute band for magic! And what do we get? A bunch of threats and censorship. Assholes.
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AgentOfBolas

THE NERDS WON! WO HOO!! I love this app! That is all

BlackJester