[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by BLZ@Sep 19 2005, 04:18 PM
I really wish you would stop calling it warez. Warez usually refers to the pirating of new(er) software, usually cracked in some way.

Well, here our (admittedly somewhat loose) definition of warez is "something which we wouldn't be able to host or link to without seriously upsetting somebody".

I really don't see how you can call the posting ofa 15 year old game Warez, thats just completely wrong.

And for that matter, the orignal makers, Sierra, even said they essentially don't care of people download it. They haven't been getting revenue for this game in over a decade.

WRONG. Sierra (or rather Vivendi Universal, since they bought Sierra several years ago) cares enough to pay a bunch of lawyers (aka the ESA) to enforce their rights to all their games. Basically this means that if they catch you hosting - or even linking - to one of their games without having their permission you are in trouble. In fact, a couple of months ago, Abandonia had to remove quite a few downloads, because the ESA threatened to have the site shut down otherwise. This very game was one of them, so I highly doubt that they "essentially don't care", or they wouldn't be paying the ESA to enforce their rights.

and, to reply to your other post, YES it can be avialable for free. Just call up Sierra, they sent me 3 original disks (my old ones were dead) for...FREE.

Fine. I'll take your word for it. But that still doesn't mean we can host the download.