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- From: matthewb@iaonline.com (Matthew Behnke)
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- Subject: Re: Old Computer Game Solutions Books
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 03:56:21 GMT
- Organization: InterACTION Online
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- On 12 Apr 1996 12:58:10 GMT, dan.rapp@stpete.honeywell.com (DLRapp) wrote:
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- >In article <316df66d.350939710@news.iaonline.com>, matthewb@iaonline.com (Matthew Behnke) says:
- >
- >>I have a copy of ," the book of adventure games" and "the book of adventure games two"
- >>if I can find them in the many boxes of books, I would be very happy to photo copy the books for
- >>you since I own a copy machine, it would be no problem.
- >> Will get back to you as soon as I find them.
- >>matthewb@iaonline.com
- >
- >First off, Matthew, I personally have no problem with anyone doing this.
- >The book is long out of print and only available by doing what you suggest.
- >Now to the point of this post.
- >
- >I'm currently in the middle of a somewhat heated thread on
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg on the legalities of the C64 emulator sites.
- >The software there consists of games, utilities, etc that are for the old
- >C64s and are no longer available commercially. In spite of this, some
- >consider it piracy to download these games. It struck me as amusing in
- >reading this, that we very casually copy printed material; yet get so
- >excited over software copyrights. I'm willing to bet even my opponents
- >in the argument do the same without a thought.
- >
- >Sorry to interrupt. As for those books, from what I've seen on here, you
- >better keep them protected. The value could be going up.
- hmmm. Good point, but I think as far as copy protected games, If the manufaturer is
- no longer in bus. does that mean the copywright is also gone for that product? I remember
- seeing games like bards tale for the ibm, c64,etc.. being sold for 1.99 at stores under a
- shareware company name? I'm not trying to start an argument, just a wonder I have had for awhile :-)
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- Matthew
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