These Games should in all rites be free. Lucas Arts doesn't even carry monkey island 1 or 2 in it's store anymore.

Hmmm...

Dont be to fast Sebastianos..

Not selling anymore by the official site and being abandonware are two different things....

We need really take care of that ....

Why hasn't this been done with Simon the Sorceror?

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

That is why Kosta and the admins are waiting a while first.

Indeed...and that`s very smart :ok:

It is the wisest thing to do at the moment knowing LucasArts. :ok:

We'll wait a bit, but the game is not only not for sail any more - it's unavailable - meaning that LucasArts doesn't have it any more!
It's not like any company said - hey people, we won't sell this game any more - we'll introduce a new technical term ABANDONWARE and classify this game as such and now you can put it up for downloads.
ABANDONWARE is not an official category, companies don't officialy abandone something.
It's when they stop selling the game, that the opening in the law comes into play. The law prehibits distribution of games because its copyright holder is making money by selling it. Once they stop selling it - they don't make money of it! So you're not huring anyone if you offer the game for free. It's a borderline case - and it got the term abandonware. There's no law covering this - so no law is saying it's either legal or illegal.
The term abandonware is not a jurisdictional term describing something (unlike freeware and shareware). It's just a newly forged word that means what I described earlyer. It's not illegal, but we have no rights either - we can't (as an example) sue someone for not abandoning the game... There's no law saying when a game is abandoned...

Hmm...

Changing mind Sebastianos??

you're the one that thought we had green light :blink:

??? Um, could you rephrase that, please?

I din't change my mind - I just explained some things about abandonware.
Basicaly what I said was - we're not doing anything wrong - but we can't expect to get a much clearer sign that it's OK for us to make a game awailabe then the fact that the game is not available for puchash anymore.