wiki.wegame.com rips off other sites

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## wiki.wegame.com rips off other sites

Sorry for the profanity, but this makes me so angry. I want to say a big FUCK YOU to wegame.com for ripping information from all kinds of sites just for their monetary benefit.

*wiki wegame com /Quake_Bots/ is a blatant ripoff from Megazoid’s Quake Bots page.

*wiki wegame com /Quake_Weapons/#1 is ripped from http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Quake_1_Weapons . Yeah, “damagwe”. They are violating the GNU Free Documentation License here.

Such scum. You know, I was recently thinking about putting all the content on this site under some free license. Needless to say that my enthusiasm to do so has faded. I was also thinking about having a contest with people uploading Quake custom map gameplay videos to wegame, ha-ha…

* Links scrambled to not give search engines any false hope. Add dots and remove the space if you want to see the sites.

18.03.2009 in Other Quake News | 3 Comments »

### 3 Responses to “wiki.wegame.com rips off other sites”

1. Ron Says:
   19.03.2009 12:59

   Hello.

   Forgive my ignorance, but I can’t really see what’s the big deal here. Let me go an and say that I don’t know anything about wegame or what they stand for, and more to the point, if they make commercial use of the plainly copied material. Nor do I care to know, most of us who like the game have found our places on the web already, this site, Quaddicted, being the biggest and best. And still alive and kicking at this moment, something worth pointing out almost 13 years after the release of Quake.

   Although really sad and pathetic to just copy and paste stuff to there own website, surely if wegame can win some new Quake fans to, ehm, the scene (what a gay word, but nevermind…) it can only be seen as a good thing, wouldn’t you agree ?

   Greetings,

   Ron

2. Max Says:
   20.03.2009 13:48

   If you think they are violating the GPL license just write to the FSF:

   licensing@fsf.org
   compliance@fsf.org

   They will give you support and even could start legal actions against them if needed.

3. Spirit Says:
   20.03.2009 19:27

   Ron: The main problem for me is that they do not even give the slightest hint that the content is copied from other sites. If you browse around on the site it is obvious that their intent is keyword hording to get advertisment money.
   They do not serve any community in any kind, that’s my honest opinion.

   And thanks! ;)

   Max: Nah, I don’t want to go down that road. ;)
   I just mailed both Megazoid and Wikia about it.

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