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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: Star Wars debate over!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.002556.15194@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:25:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.201902.104802@ultramac.uucp>
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- In article 104802@ultramac.uucp, starsabre@ultramac.uucp (JT August) writes:
- >
- >Think about it. If a company is no longer
- >in existance, and no one picked up the rights to a programme as the previous
- >holder vanished, who is going to care if it is copied for free. Now
- >programmes still availble and/or supported by fully active companies will be
- >guarded religiously, sa they should be. But if I cannot get a programme by
- >purchasing it in any legal way, shape, or form, I am not going to look at it
- >and sigh a goodbye.
-
- Something to keep in mind is that "dead" games are often
- brought back to life. It looked like the Infocom games
- were gone forever, but then out of the blue Activision
- re-released all of the games in the two Lost Treasures
- packages. On the PC, Maniac Mansion (which is 5 years
- old) was just re-released in a similar "oldies but goodies"
- set. And there are several classic games which have been,
- or are going to be, updated to modern standards.
-
- Moral: It is not up to you to decide the fate of games
- you do not hold the copyrights for.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-