QUOTE(Mega Man (?) @ Apr 19 2010, 07:24 AM)

First of all, megaupload has got them
Second...
who gave "you" permission to use the original images...?
who were all the people who originally scanned those image...?
who gave those people the permission to scan those images...?
did they ask there mommy before using the scanner that day...?
You should take it up with the Nintendo, Atari, Sega, Etc, corporations...
They released these images... did you get their permission...?
I totally understand where you are coming from (initially)...
but, people need to take a step back sometimes and realize what we are all doing here...
Good luck gating "Your" stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
Being the "creator", (er...co-creator) I thank you for your contributions.
PS. This is coming from a guy (me) who has put in a ton of time for the community and has given it all open & freely. As you can see, people are gonna get it if they want it anyway, if it's online. So, you might as well except it and embrace it...Hey, first I would like to say, that I have no problem with you guys using my art outside of HyperSpin. I made it, I'm glad it gets used. I am just (I think reasonably) asking for 2 things.
1) Attribution, which was added in the second post, thank you.
2) "License" respect.
Your argument about not "owning" is invalid, as no, I do not own the original art that Nintendo made, but I do have the right to use it under Fair Use, and I DO own the derived works under a CCL with attribution license.
Here's the things: all of this art is hosted, and freely available at our website
http://hyperspin-fe.com. We just ask that you come download it there, and then use it for your purposes. This is for a couple of reasons. First it ensures that we get attribution, second we like to keep track of downloads to know how "popular" our stuff is. It's nice to know that my 3D NES boxes have over 1000 original downloads (I'd like to know how many from trackers/megaupload) because it makes me feel like I made a valuable contribution that people want- and it makes me want to contribute more. Finally, the art is just a small piece of a greater project, which is HyperSpin- and we like to show it off, maybe get some new users, and maybe get some donations to go towards site hosting fees.
So I'm aware that I can't force you to remove the links to "my" work, I'm just asking that you replace them with the links to the hyperspin downloads section- or at the very least add a link to the hyperspin website. And even though megaupload "has" the files- if the links are removed the files will die.
Thanks,
SophT
--Team
HyperSpin