Mothergoat vs. Jonsmodding.com

Well, a website called jonsmodding.com has stolen multiplayer maps for Halo designed and distributed by my good friend Mothergoat, called them their own, and has decided to start selling them online.

As you might gather, I'm not too happy about this. The nice thing, though, is that neither is the Halo community.

Other sites are finding out, and it's quickly becoming a major news item. I've seen Mothergoat work hard on those usermaps. Very hard. And it just isn't right for some fool to claim them as his own and try to turn a profit on them.

The funny thing about it is that he linked images of the maps off of Mothergoat's website (which is how he found out about all of this in the first place), which is something called bandwith leaching... and as far as I know, is illegal. But, on the upside, it means that Mothergoat can edit the images to say whatever he wants them to, and they'll show up on Jon's website like that. So he did.

And oh, is it ever funny. :)

From what we know so far, MG will be pursuing some sort of legal action against Jon, and there was some talk of reporting him to Microsoft's legal department as Jon also offers his services to illegaly mod xbox hardware, a big "no-no" in Microsoft's eyes.

Sheesh. I'd sure hate to be him right now.

Mothergoat, just wanted you to know that I'm behind you 100% amigo.

UPDATE: Behold, the teeth of the internet. Scoville, a good friend and fellow member of the goat herd, has decided to do his part by creating this nifty little YTMND.

Nice one, dude.