![]() Had they sorted through all of it, created all the torrent seeds for it, we'd be waiting another month. By releasing it like this people will re-seed it. They probably want to get it all out fast. FFS, I haven't seen anything quite so stupid in a long time. I guess you have to download the whole damned thing, then decide if there is anything that you really want. ![]() But, yeah, all there is to see, is that poorly packaged humongous frigging zip file. I wasn't going to comment until I had looked things over. ![]() Identifying the true owner of something more obscure is a much more difficult prospect. That was an easy case, it was all documented on wikipedia and the companies involved are very well-known. Good? No, because Telecomsoft (Better known as 'Firebird') was actually owned by BT, the British telephone company, who (AFAIK) still retain the copyright. Game good for the taking, right? Well, no: Beyond Software was aquired by Telecomsoft, so you need to look them up too. You look it up, and Beyond Software is long defunct. ![]() How hard? Well, let us say you have a game called The Lords of Midnight, published by Beyond Software. Just because the publisher is out of business doesn't mean the game is in the public domain - there may well have been a selling-off of rights during bankruptcy, or another company may have aquired the defunct publisher. Plain old copyright law still applies.Ī lot of the old games will have effectively lapsed now simply because their owning legal entities ceased to exist, but confirming that poses quite a challenge itsself. That only exempts them from the anti-circumvention provisions. ![]()
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