ScummVM Barred From Using PayPal
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 04 September 2006
The ScummVM developers have received notice that their use of PayPal for donations is in violation of PayPal's AUP. According to a forum post, the AUP bans 'Game enhancers (which enable the play of import software and/or back up versions of software).
That's one of the most ridiculous things happened lately. Paypal froze ScummVM's account because an emulator is illegal from their point of view, because it allows people to play games on other systems than they had been developed for. Well... I own a few of the PC versions of games supported by ScummVM; so I'm playing PC games on a PC. I bet they won't enforce that AUP on a wide scale, since they practically would have to cancel every account which has to do with emulation, like VMware, MS and Apple as well as everyone who deals with such software, eg on eBay. However, I doubt Paypal has the guts to do this, so this is an abuse of power and censorship. Not to mention that they don't understand a single bit of what they try to talk about. You also may want to take a look here, and find out why Paypal sucks.