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[leppertj]

Help! While laid up after having four wisdom teeth removed I was
looking to play some nostalgia-inspiring games and went looking for my
old Full Throttle CD (the biker gang game). Lucky for me, I found it but it has a crack in one side making it unplayable...

Anyone care to zip the contents of their CD and send it to me via a
file sending service -- streamload.com or similar -- I really want to play this game for some reason!!

A paypal reward would be included for the kind soul, I would purchase
off ebay but I am rather inpatient!!

Thanks,

Jon

[BeefontheBone]

So, what you're asking for is that someone pirates the game for you? We don't take kindly to that sort of thing around here, mister.

[leppertj]

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Dec 8 2005, 11:47 PM
So, what you're asking for is that someone pirates the game for you? We don't take kindly to that sort of thing around here, mister.

I don't really consider it pirating because I already own a copy of the game legally, bought and paid for, albeit damaged.

The game itself is over 15 years old.

Sheesh!!!

[moogle]

ya beef "sheesh!"
LOL, I wouldn't ask for that kind of stuff around here man, just buy a new copy, it should only be like 10 dollars, maybe 16 dollars for a compilation of Lucasarts oldies, well worth the cost.

[leppertj]

Originally posted by moogle@Dec 8 2005, 11:51 PM
ya beef "sheesh!"
LOL, I wouldn't ask for that kind of stuff around here man, just buy a new copy, it should only be like 10 dollars, maybe 16 dollars for a compilation of Lucasarts oldies, well worth the cost.

The point of my asking here is that the game is no longer locally available, and I am laid up after surgery. The game itself is pratically abandonware. I am already bidding on a new copy on ebay ($5), but that's going to take at least a week (probably a few weeks) to get here.

I figured there would be a kind soul on one of these boards, even for a small paypal donation by myself for his/her time and effort. I didn't mean to unearth the wrath of the anti-pirating right wing when I've never pirated a game myself ever, period.

Oh well, sorry for offending anyone and if anyone still wants to help me out, please let me know.

I'll paypal someone $20 -- twice the cost for a new copy -- just to show I am not a "video game pirate"!!

[Eva02Soul]

There is no such thing as Practically abandonware. Being abandoned is not really an official status for software, being practically abandoned is just bizarre.

I have the talkie version on CD which i got from the Lucasarts collection. However, unless you can provide some evidence that you do actually own a copy of this, I won't help you. Sorry.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Sorry, but it's Lucasarts and thus ESA-protected. No-go.

If you have a good internet connection, you might want to try some P2P network to locate a copy.

[leppertj]

I finally was able to find someone online through another forum that was kind enough to send me a copy of the CD, and because of that, they are now $20 richer.

Thanks for all the stuffed shirts here who stood up for poor Lucas Arts' 15 year old out of print copyright. Heaven forbid one of your guy's CDs gets a crack in it. You'd think this was a forum for RIAA supporters, the way I was attacked for fair use.

Besides that, IMO, if a game has been out of print for some time, is not publically available, and the company has no future plans for the game, it should enter the public domain.

[JimmyJ]

Don't be mad at me, but its not legal, although I hate lucasart's abandonware stance :P

[Eva02Soul]

Oh, bravo. You sign on to an abandonware site to get somebody to break the law for you, you show no evidence to back up any of your claims, and then you get angry at us because we rightfully told you where to shove it. That's good thinking there, slim.

I really hope you enjoy Full Throttle, because you have just reported in your last post that while having full knowledge of a game's legal status, you paid money to somebody to get an illegal copy of it anyway.