wolsneMikeMatId love to hop on the fuck esea train but the guy set up a google ad and made it look just like an official esea ad but link to his referral link. esea's paid out like a million $ for this referral stuff so its not them just trying to screw someone out of 30K, they're annoyed that he mislead their customers to take advantage of their referral program.He operated within the confines of the rules of all agencies involved, and ESEA is trying to wrongfully claim copyright infringement when they don't even hold the copyright to their own brand. This dude spent months of his time and went out of his way to make a buck legitimately, and for that he deserves to be paid up.
uhh
FewOwnsMario's actions also violated the ESEA Terms of Use (“ESEA Terms”), the current version of which has been in effect since 2014. (See https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=content&d=terms_of_use.) Among other things, the ESEA Terms prohibit unauthorized use of ESEA’s name and use of ESEA’s services for commercial purposes. Launching an ad campaign to persuade strangers to take an action that will generate money for the advertiser is not a non-commercial activity. Even the ad itself is not personal or noncommercial: it looks like a business advertisement. (In fact, it looks like an ESEA advertisement, as discussed above.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/6cbh7g/referral_program/dhtfywr/
yeah..