shit yeah dont take crap! Your yard is your to tend, and to hell with anyone backseat gardening.

The next time it get's messed up just take it all the way and make a lightning bolt!

there's always the middle ground of treating it like the lawn. Let it get too long and it starts hiding things like children's toys, rodents and cars, but too short and you have bedrock. Just trim it short, but not off.

Those are both valid reasons and really not half as freak out worthy as you seem to think, or maybe I'm some sort of uteral blood iron man... Whichever.

The term goes both ways. Which reminds me... *sound of electric razor*

(Voice of Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past) -I DON'T SEE WHY NOT-

Well ok then, this is officially a legal contest!

I think I might like this idea and I know I like those logos for the content blocks.

I dont think you're going about this the right way. The judge should tell the companies that he's going to cut the modders in half and give each company a piece. Whichever company refuses, and gives up their claim rather than see their beloved modders murdered in a gory spectacle, truly cares more for them and should…

The public doesnt own anything here. Blizzard's EULA says that if you make a game/mod, using their system/assets, then they own it. They might not have trademarked it, but based on that contact with the players they likely have the strongest claim in court.

Icefrog doesnt own the name. Based on Warcraft 3's EULC, If you made a mod for Warcraft 3, using Blizzard's models and assets, etc. then they own it, including the name. Period. Valve hired on Icefrog because he knew how the mod worked top to bottom and he could give them a huge leg up on developing their own version,…

You have to understand that for businesses a legal dispute isnt the nightmare that it happens to be for individuals. No one is going to have their life destroyed by this, or go bankrupt defending themselves. In fact this is pretty much the standard way of settling disputes as both of them want the name, and want to…

Regardless of who's working where (Icefrog is at Valve but the original creators of DOTA went on to make League of Legends) Warcraft's end user license agreement likely has some stipulation along the lines of, "If you make it on our system, we own it." That would reasonably include the name of the original mod as well.

That seems to be sound reasoning. The use of the DOTA accronym by Valve has always been a little suspect, but they clearly want the resonance with fans the name carries. Blizzard doesnt actually own the name per-say but they likely had an EULA related to WC3 mods that stated something like, "we own the shit you make".…

Yeah... that's right, that's what all of us who live in the state say about that town.

Hahaha doesn't stop it from being creepy!

Stop-uhhh It's the Mass Effect Infiltrator fohh SHOW.

Yeah that would be a totally acceptable response.

That's a good point, I'm not being raped, nor have I been raped, I have no frame of reference. It is a huge invasion, yes, and now that I'm thinking of it in those terms you're probably right. I mistook the reactions I was reading to mean that people simply wanted this gone and I had a reaction to that.

They've already been taken down and this shouldn't just disappear. People need to be made aware this happened and the people involved should be brought to some semblance of justice.