Pathogen...you are mixing up your facts with your loyalty to GSI. I worked for GSI and chose to leave. GSI never did anything bad, but at the same time, they have demonstrated strong arm tactics.
All this stemmed from the Site Director's contract. What you fail to understand is that Planet Unreal NEVER belonged to GSI. Planet Unreal started off as a hosted site. The creators of that site moved on and left other people in charge. In the course of Planet Unreal's history, GSI "assumed" ownership of the Planet names.
Strangely enough, none of the creators of Planet Unreal remembers siging or negotiating a contract to explicitly hand over PU to GSI. GSI knew this and created a new contract. In that contract, it stipulates that every Site Director is to receive 30% of ad revenues. Although that is good (for some), the rest of the contract was written to wrest control of any Site Director's work.
Whatever content a Site Director put on their Planet sites becomes the sole property of GSI. True, if a company is paying you, then they should receive ownership of your works. However, they didn't seperate what kind of content.
So, if you made a new data compression program to speed up upload and download transfers, and then put it in a GSI database, they would claim ownership.
This debate sparked the exodus of serveral admins. Of course, the admins were forced, morally, to state they are leaving for other reasons. QAPete, on the other hand, did not leave on their terms. Silently, admins across the GSI network applaud QAPete. Sadly, they have to publicly denounce him.
I don't care what GSI is telling you...they never knew Nali City had any plans to move to Beyond Unreal. Once they created the FP test, the PU community voiced their protests about moving. We then decided to move the forums to Beyond Unreal.
Beyond Unreal was going to be a seperate and new site. Since the forums belongs to us (legally), we were going to move it too. But, we were going to discuss terms of transfer of data to FP. But they forced us to act prematurely and now state we forced them to create FP. I wonder how everyone knew about PU's FP but had no link or idea about BU?
When we moved the forums, GSI immediately cut off every hosted site's access to Planet Unreal. They claimed it was for security reasons, not related to the move. However, my sources told me that GSI was backing up all the data to prevent hosted sites from leaving.
Nali City was one such site. And to shoot down your theory about what happened, we were in negotiation with the GSI top man about keeping NC files at PU. That was, until NC's files were deleted, without warning.
Call it want you want, but when a company holds your data hostage, deletes the data in an attempt to ruin your publicity, and privately copies content to an unknown location, that is a sign of Coporate Killers.
Previously, I was neutral about GSI...but after they attempted to sabotage NC and indirectly tried to ruin BU, I have no love for them. I am appalled at how some people at GSI could think of such a thing.
Nali City is important to the UT community for various reasons. One reason is that Nali City is THE historical library of the Unreal series maps. GSI knew this and what better way to force a community to stay away than to destroy their files. I believe, that if the truth was not discovered, GSI would have claimed we did it.
Sorry, but GSI did try to sabotage the UT community in hopes they would move to PU FP. That is just unethical and the people who committed this crime deserves no respect!
All this stemmed from the Site Director's contract. What you fail to understand is that Planet Unreal NEVER belonged to GSI. Planet Unreal started off as a hosted site. The creators of that site moved on and left other people in charge. In the course of Planet Unreal's history, GSI "assumed" ownership of the Planet names.
Strangely enough, none of the creators of Planet Unreal remembers siging or negotiating a contract to explicitly hand over PU to GSI. GSI knew this and created a new contract. In that contract, it stipulates that every Site Director is to receive 30% of ad revenues. Although that is good (for some), the rest of the contract was written to wrest control of any Site Director's work.
Whatever content a Site Director put on their Planet sites becomes the sole property of GSI. True, if a company is paying you, then they should receive ownership of your works. However, they didn't seperate what kind of content.
So, if you made a new data compression program to speed up upload and download transfers, and then put it in a GSI database, they would claim ownership.
This debate sparked the exodus of serveral admins. Of course, the admins were forced, morally, to state they are leaving for other reasons. QAPete, on the other hand, did not leave on their terms. Silently, admins across the GSI network applaud QAPete. Sadly, they have to publicly denounce him.
I don't care what GSI is telling you...they never knew Nali City had any plans to move to Beyond Unreal. Once they created the FP test, the PU community voiced their protests about moving. We then decided to move the forums to Beyond Unreal.
Beyond Unreal was going to be a seperate and new site. Since the forums belongs to us (legally), we were going to move it too. But, we were going to discuss terms of transfer of data to FP. But they forced us to act prematurely and now state we forced them to create FP. I wonder how everyone knew about PU's FP but had no link or idea about BU?
When we moved the forums, GSI immediately cut off every hosted site's access to Planet Unreal. They claimed it was for security reasons, not related to the move. However, my sources told me that GSI was backing up all the data to prevent hosted sites from leaving.
Nali City was one such site. And to shoot down your theory about what happened, we were in negotiation with the GSI top man about keeping NC files at PU. That was, until NC's files were deleted, without warning.
Call it want you want, but when a company holds your data hostage, deletes the data in an attempt to ruin your publicity, and privately copies content to an unknown location, that is a sign of Coporate Killers.
Previously, I was neutral about GSI...but after they attempted to sabotage NC and indirectly tried to ruin BU, I have no love for them. I am appalled at how some people at GSI could think of such a thing.
Nali City is important to the UT community for various reasons. One reason is that Nali City is THE historical library of the Unreal series maps. GSI knew this and what better way to force a community to stay away than to destroy their files. I believe, that if the truth was not discovered, GSI would have claimed we did it.
Sorry, but GSI did try to sabotage the UT community in hopes they would move to PU FP. That is just unethical and the people who committed this crime deserves no respect!