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Some of you may have used this http://webapplications-webroster.rhcloud.com/rc/web/#!#%2FrosterCreator army builder in the past. I checked it today and the creator has announced that GW asked him to take it down because of copyright violations. Here's his message from the site:

"Hey guys,

A big pile of bad news now…

I was contacted by GW Legal. They requested that I remove the website and I did. It is their right and I must comply.

I was infringing on their IP with:

GW artwork (featured in the background of your website)
Photographs of GW's painted miniatures (taken from the GW web store)
Legion logos/ iconography
Army points and stats for 40K units
The Warhammer 40,000 logo

Seeing all of these I feel lucky they didn't actually sue me.

I didn't actually remove the site but, as you can see, it is unusable – I am leaving it for now just for this news so you know what's going on.

I cannot say I wasn't expecting this. I really did use a lot of their data. But I have to say I just cannot use the new points without some kind of list builder. And using things like BattleScribe is total bs. Those lists are UGLY as hell.
This was a labour of love for me. I have a patreon but hardly any body has been using that. This project is now more than three years old. The last month with the coming of 8th edition I was spending almost a full work day extra supporting it - crunching data and developing. I am lucky to have an understanding and supportive girlfriend. I even left my painting to update to 8th (I have about 500pts of Tyranids, 1000pts of Space Marines and 500pts of Harlequins and Craftworld eldar waiting for me).

I really hoped if GW contacted me it would be for some sort of collaboration. Not removal :(

I want to thank all of you for all the gratitude and some of you really helped with the data.

If you think something can be done about this maybe you could all send emails to Games Workshop saying you really want this… There are 12 000 of you each day on here… It may make a difference.
Someone posted these emails in my blog as comments. I have no idea which of these are real:

uk.custserv@gwplc.com
licensing@gwplc.com
infringements@gwplc.com
reception@gwplc.com


I am so sad... :(

Happy Wargaming,
Reepy

P.S. On the bright side, now I can do much more painting and actual gaming.

If any body wants to contact me for some reason: wh40kroster@gmail.com

I want to point out the email I got from GW was not a Cease and Desist order. It was a polite notice of infringement with which I complied. They didn't just throw the book at me.

I did brake many infringement rules.

If you send mails (and many of you already have) I would very much like it if they are not negative towards GW but more on the soft "we rally liked that" side. This company has given me personally a lot of joy and I will continue playing. I am actually playing my second 8th edition game in a few hours (saturday). I don't want all of this to become too negative. It's our hobby and I feel we must protect it even if we don't like something that's happening."



I wish it hadn't happened, and that GW had decided to endorse it like they did with Warscroll Builder for AoS.

Few weeks late there bud....

 ncshooter426 wrote:
Few weeks late there bud....

Huh, thought it was more recent. Guess it's been a while since I played.

There was a news and rumors thread about this too, a few weeks back if you are interested in the discussion around it.

Of course he did everything you could to get in trouble besides shoot a flare in there office.

 NenkotaMoon wrote:
Of course he did everything you could to get in trouble besides shoot a flare in there office.

The general consensus for why he did get shut down was that he started receiving donations for it, and set up a donate button.
But you are right, even down to using all official art lol