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Infogrames Serves Civ3 Fans With Cease and Desist

Posted by chrisd on from the bad-europe-bad-no-civ-for-you dept.

janolder writes "According to multiple articles on heise online (German only), the leader of an effort to localize Civilization III for Germany, Kai Fiebach, has been slapped with a cease and desist letter, including $500 lawyer bill from Infogrames Germany. A grassroots effort to help Kai and tell Infogrames off is forming." "Background: Most European versions of Civ3 are late. With a slated release for March 2002, Kai and a group of Civ3 fans decided to translate portions of Civ3 to German and to make the result available as a set of files to be applied to the US on time for Christmas. Kai informed Infogrames of his effort and even offered to join forces with their localization team if only the game would be released sooner. Sadly, Infogrames reacted by sending Kai a cease and desist letter, alleging copyright infringement. The home page of the translation effort has already been taken down.

The reason for Infogrames' reaction seems to be that Infogrames Germany doesn't make a single penny on the US version of the game sold through Amazon Germany and other vendors."

5 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. I tags by Levine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watch out for those I tags, there, Chris.

    Cheers,
    levine

  2. Applied to the US? by Quarters · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kai and a group of Civ3 fans decided to translate portions of Civ3 to German and to make the result available as a set of files to be applied to the US on time for Christmas.

    Well, I hope I have time to finish typing this before das ereignet.

  3. Kai? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Kai? Isn't he a dead assasin of the Divine Order and last of the Brunnen-G? When did he start programming computer games?

  4. Re:T-shirts? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > So where can I pick up my 'Boycott Sid Meier' shirt/Tshirt/bumper sticker?

    Research "Tee Shirts" and "Printing", and then you can build them in any city with a textile mill.
    Or you may find it easier to just plunder neighboring civilizations that already have them.

    --
    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  5. Inaccurate Translation by Cruciform · · Score: 3, Funny

    If, according to some of the posts, an inaccurate translation is the safest way to go, then they should have used Babelfish.

    "You have discovered the wheel."
    "You have discovered metal employment."
    "You have discovered waffle pigeon."