Hi,
I'm from the place that started this particular campaign, and after reading plix's post thought I'd sign up and comment on some of the things they mentioned.
I admit, not contacting people within the Abandonware realm was a grave omission, and something that would have probably brought more support to the article from the word go; it would also have filled out the article, provided more in-depth information and provided an insight into the Abandonware community.
I'll take the plea of short-sightedness, as to why - believe me, there would have been few people as suprised as me when Slashdot actually ran the story; I was also surprised by the amount of other sites that posted about the story. Exiled Gamers is a tiny site in comparison to almost any others of it's age, I expected this to go no further than the forum and a few people outside it, I certainly didn't expect 2307 people to have signed the (worthless?) petition.
I didn't write the article for the traffic to the site, I wrote it because it was something that I firmly believed in; I've been playing games for as long as I can remember, and I thought it a terrible shame that I could no longer obtain titles such as System Shock 2, Syndicate, Speedball 2, etc legally anymore.
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