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- Subject: Re: Uploading sf2-00?.lzh to wuarchive is _useless_. don't bother.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135410.46597@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:54:10 CST
- References: <1jljmjINNis1@aurora.engr.LaTech.edu> <C17qsC.Fzr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C17qsC.Fzr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
- > manskie@latech.edu (Kenneth J. Manskie) writes:
- >
- >> I know everyone has a problem finding the new copies of
- >>Street Fighter II on wuarchive because someone keeps deleting
- >>them. Personally, I think this sucks the big one and would
- > Yes, it's the site manager. he/she doesn't normally involve himself like
- > that, but the sf2-00?.lzh files are _illegal_ in the USA, because it's a
- > clone of street fighter II, and a violation of Capcom's copyright.
- >
- > Given how often they're uploaded, I wouldn't be surprised if the sysop
- > longs on several times a day just to delete them.
- >
- >
- > - Frank Wang
- > ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >
-
- I'm not sure but I think the copyright laws are irrelevent since
- jung-young-dug made the game himself and is not selling it.
- the reason its being deleted is because the sysop doesn't give a fuck
- about sf2 and thinks its a large waste of his disk space considering
- how large the files are.
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