Dear Sirs, I am an owner of the largest and oldest "The Sims" fansite online, The Sims Resource (www.thesimsresource.com). One of my colleagues, Thomas Isaksson contacted you a little over a year ago about your hosting of a website which promotes the piracy of Custom Content created for the game. You appear to choose not to take any action based on the same excuse the pirates were using at the time, the Sims 2 End User Licence Agreement (EULA). At that time the EULA specified that users could not sell for profit any custom creations made using game code. That said, Electronic Arts (EA) fully supported our website in what we do and had no legal concerns with us or any other Sims 2 fansite which took subscription or donation payments for work. I have since visited EA in Redwood Shores and had numerous meetings with the web and legal teams there. As a result, the EULA was changed in August 2007 to remove any references to Non Commercial sites from the Custom Content EULA. EA no longer has an opinion on the distribution of Custom Content on Free/Donation/Pay sites. They clearly continue to support and encourage all constructive fan sites in the community. Unfortunately, you are now one of the last hosts providing a safe haven for the self confessed pirates to promote the theft and distribution of Sims 2 artist's intellectual property. The EULA which they (and seemingly you) used to hide behind has been invalid now for a year. As such I am writing to formally request again, that you remove all of the content hosted on your servers by "PAYSITES MUST BE DESTROYED" (http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/), which have been taken from our website and staff artists, specifically, all files hosted here: http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/booty/tsr/ Given that we have made this formal request, our only option thereafter is legal, and now that you are knowingly hosting these files we would attempt to recover all legal costs from your company. Regards,