It's a Conspiracy! Articles / Announcements Date: Jan 13, 2006 - 10:09 AM “There are no covert organizations of any kind.” Or so I thought! It turns out that over the past few months, several players have adopted digital copyright as a political cause. Others have “shanghaied” the technical bits of the story as a personal development challenge. In general HBM encourages such things. We applaud all people who take initiative. However, The Big Hack is not necessarily an appropriate place to carry on such activities. First, TBH is fiction. It has had a beginning, and middle. It also has an inevitable end. As such, it is no place for continuing causes. Second, this is a business. We create and market these interactive stories, so it is important that we not confuse HBM’s intellectual property with the ideas of our players. But we are not ogres, we relish the opportunity to support all players who are inspired by our stories. We have been working with these players in re-hosting their projects to a longer term and more appropriate location. The new site for their project is http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/. In addition HBM has given permission to reference some of our trademarks and characters. We see this as an appropriate extension to our product line of sub-domain and email addresses currently marketed to players. After all, the unique experience of interactive fiction is enhancing the story and make it your own. This article comes from HackBack Media http://hackback.org/ The URL for this story is: http://hackback.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=20