| Is Abandonware Illegal? |
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50% |
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| No! |
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40% |
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Cyber Ghost
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Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 39
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 Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:53 am
Post subject: |Poll| Is Abandonware Illegal? |Poll| |
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Post your answer and maybe some comments!  Lemme know what the majority think! |
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486 player
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
Posts: 1079
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| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:18 pm
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| That's 3rd aw legalisize topic! Accordin' to law it's illegal but to fair not. |
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Dogbreath
Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 4439
Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:21 pm
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| Yes, it's illegal, and a poll wouldn't change that. Or are you asking if it should be illegal? |
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Cyber Ghost
Member
Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 39
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| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:44 pm
Post subject: Yes that is what I ment Dog breath |
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| I'm sorry I ment Should it Be Illegal Or Not. I'm I opinion I think that it should be but other friends of mine think other wise. Though I'd get an second opinion. |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3361
Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:59 pm
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it IS illegal, but it shouldn't be. The only people losing out are the fans that want to play the game(s) again. If the company no longer supports it, it should become public domain.
-Richard- |
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dr_st
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 23 Jun 2004
Posts: 309
Location: Absorbed into Clayface
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 8:55 am
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| Where the "Who cares?" option? |
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CloudCobain
Experienced Member
Joined: 07 Aug 2004
Posts: 96
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:02 am
Post subject: Re: Yes that is what I ment Dog breath |
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| Cyber Ghost wrote: | | I'm sorry I ment Should it Be Illegal Or Not. |
Well that's annoying. I voted Yes, because it is. I don't really agree with that.
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486 player
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
Posts: 1079
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:00 pm
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| In public domain, there are NO COPYRIGHTS! |
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CloudCobain
Experienced Member
Joined: 07 Aug 2004
Posts: 96
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:31 pm
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| Doesn't copyright work in a way that means, you can't take copyrighted material and use it in a way that makes money for you or exposes it to the public? So uh, if you're just playing some abandonware, why should that be illegal? |
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Ro@m
Hamachi Guardian
Joined: 29 Jun 2003
Posts: 1542
Location: Croatia
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 7:43 am
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| no no and no,it IS illegal! |
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CloudCobain
Experienced Member
Joined: 07 Aug 2004
Posts: 96
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:25 am
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| Hey, I never said it wasn't. I was just trying to make sense of it. Don't bite my head off. |
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Dopefish
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Aug 2003
Posts: 371
Location: West Hartford, CT
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:58 pm
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My only solid view on copyright laws is that as soon as the artist/creator dies, the thing should become public domain. I hate the fact that Disney has bought courts to extend copyrights to last until 70 years after the artist dies.
Seriously, that's insane. With laws like that, Shakespeare wouldn't have been allowed to publish Romeo & Juliette (a rip-off of an Italian play). |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 560
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:48 pm
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| Dopefish wrote: | My only solid view on copyright laws is that as soon as the artist/creator dies, the thing should become public domain. I hate the fact that Disney has bought courts to extend copyrights to last until 70 years after the artist dies.
Seriously, that's insane. With laws like that, Shakespeare wouldn't have been allowed to publish Romeo & Juliette (a rip-off of an Italian play). |
I am all for having a limited time for copyrights from the day published (say 20 years), so you can milk a good work for a while. Romeo and Juliet was not an exact copy of the italian play, so copyright would not affect it would it? Copyright just protects the name of the original work and its contents (in whole or in parts) from reproduction. If you take Harry Potter change the characters names and traits plus the storyline a bit you can publish it with no problems. |
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x86_Game-Junkie
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 17 May 2004
Posts: 321
Location: The Bachelor Pad, Sydney Oz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:25 pm
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Depends on the perspective you are coming from, most hardware & software companies who create/develop games and other software, drivers and hardware actually have policies on their software/hardware. What I mean in lamans terms is some software/hardware is supported and on the other hand some are unsupported. It's normally to do with technical support issues, such as installations, error messages and conflicts etc etc!!
Abandonware to my knowledge isn't illegal, but unsupported by the vendor, distributor and software company.
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Red Sun
Newbie
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:49 am
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| It shouldn't be illegal, in my opinion. The company isn't selling the game anymore, so you aren't taking anything away from the profits of the company by downloading it. |
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