| 27-03-2010 07:44 AM | ||
| Eagle of Fire |
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Even if you were to delete a game you downloaded, would it be any kind, deleting it would by no mean clean yourself of any kind of accusation if you ever happen to end in this situation. The rest has however been already very well described above, so I'll refrain from repeating everything again. |
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| 20-03-2010 10:21 PM | ||
| El Quia |
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 but yeah, you are pretty safe downloading from here. As it has been told, we are only offering stuff that isn't being sold and that isn't being actively protected by the IP owner. |
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| 20-03-2010 03:47 PM | ||
| dragonnutds |
thank thank you everyone, now i am going to go look for some treasures of the past |
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| 20-03-2010 12:47 PM | ||
| The Fifth Horseman |
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So, if anything happens, it's Abandonia that's in trouble - not its' users. |
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| 20-03-2010 11:58 AM | ||
| Dave |
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It would be easier for you to get in trouble for a movie or mp3 you may have downloaded when you were a young boy...discovering the wonders of the Internet. Abandonia is a sort of museum of games risking extinction, we are all volunteers and we don't get money for our work. However if you feel to stay "safe" there are many sites around that can offer you oldies at a reasonable price, GoG and Steam for example. |
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| 20-03-2010 10:53 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
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in long: files are transferred via http protocol so there's no "mafiaa peers" like on torrents spying on you (if that's what you mean by getting legally in trouble), and we do not host games that are sold, only the ones that are abandoned, forgotten so unless you believe that your isp has planned a conspiracy against you and wants to spend money just to put you on court for absolutely no gain at all it's safe |
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| 20-03-2010 07:39 AM | ||
| Scatty |
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| 20-03-2010 05:22 AM | ||
| Wicky |
Well, the point is this: If abandonia did not host these games, then you wouldn't be able to get them anywhere! So the short answer: Yes. It is against the law to download. Long answer: The games are from companies which no longer exist. Thus the damage done equals 0,0$. None of the copyright holders care about somebody who cause 0$ damage. Even the government helped abandonware sites by including a paragraph in the DCMA, which allows to crack abandoned games in order to preserve them as cultural ware. http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr68472.html You probably won't ever get into legal trouble since the ESA companies watch us with Argus Eyes and do not complain. |
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| 20-03-2010 04:02 AM | ||
| dragonnutds |
can i get in trouble legally if i download from this site? i realy need to know, and i don't want "probably not" i need a definite answer, as in "the only way to get in trouble is if you keep a game after the copyright owner tells the site to delete it" or something like that |
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