Linxsis
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You & many others keep bringing up the fact of cipsoft being a multi-million dollar company and the developers here as being small time. What does someone's income have to do with anything. You can not justify one means of stealing over another.You're also cherry picking the arguments and points. TFS is a free source released, for free, to a community. As is Remeres, and OB. Cipsoft is a million dollar grossing company, that has existed for 20 years, and has been battling theft and actually even quelled with their cease and desist letters in the past years.
Not to mention, it's somewhat honor among thieves to not steal from people also trying to do something similar to you. It's one thing to dick over "the man", a multi million dollar corporation and get one against them. Thieving from someone who is trying to promote a community you love, partake of and belong to is scummy as shit.
With your logic, it's like saying if I ask a friend to hack their db and steal it, that means it wasn't protected and it is okay? Like come on. The mental gymnastics ya'll are exerting to justify him stealing an Artist's hard work, and an owner's time and money is absurd. The very least is to pay the artist for his time and effort.
Either its ok to steal or its not there is no middle ground or grey area and since this community uses tibia's sprites and protocols without issue or ridicule then whatever images are accessible via tools that have been built over the course of this community's existance or other means is fair game.