Disney do. They have nothing else. Disney has a history of being very preoccupied to bend and break the laws about copyright in their favor. They've lobbied hard. Ironically Disney's success is owed to them adapting stories they stole from other countries.
Lol, do you really think telling people to patch a Dreamcast ISO is being an apologist?
Emulation is only illegal if you use something copyrighted. That's why DOSbox is with a million games on GOG and Steam but WinUAE isn't. The former uses no DOS code, but you need BIOS files for the latter. Microsoft isn't being asked for permission for each game with DOSbox, hell, they don't even need to ask DOSbox for permission. You're doing nothing illegal by buying a game that comes with DOSbox. You're doing nothing illegal by downloading DOSbox and then downloading shareware/freeware games and playing it, or a physical game you own.
What is GOG-Chan wearing?
The story of this was was kind of interesting, and they did a pretty good job setting up the environment of the place, but the puzzles range from so easy your grandma is complaining to a nightmare that never ends.
As I said in my other post, GTA 1 was freeware many years ago (I can't tell you when exactly), but at some point it stopped being freeware, at least that's what can be deduced, as Rockstar no longer offers it for download for free, however, it is also not for sale, in other words, it's a mystery whether it is or not is freeware in 2024.The dudes on Gog are a bunch of pansy asses.I would say that it is not "piracy", as "piracy" it is illegal trade. The correct term would be "fair use" or "abandonware". In fact, I was already kicked off the GOG forums once when I posted a link to download fully functional GTA 1, which was freeware a few years ago.
Users in general were completely hostile towards the publication of the link, which could be called false moralism. Anyway, it's good to see that users here react in a friendly way to these things.
Why did they get so hostile because you posted a fucking freeware version of GTA 1?
It's certainly nothing felonious.
You're welcome, mate! It took me a few seconds to understand your post, but I got it, hehe.
For the record, the guy on the website I mentioned usually takes down links when games are released/re-released on GOG, Steam or any other digital store. So what he does there is "fair use" of a handful of intellectual properties that are not generating revenue for anyone.Abandonware is not a real legal term but an excuse for people to pirate stuff without guilt. On the other hand free use is a legal term, but it has to be established beforehand. Companies don't know how to handle copyright though. This happens because everything's owned by a third party made up of moneybags kinda people. Your publishers.I would say that it is not "piracy", as "piracy" it is illegal trade. The correct term would be "fair use" or "abandonware". In fact, I was already kicked off the GOG forums once when I posted a link to download fully functional GTA 1, which was freeware a few years ago.
Users in general were completely hostile towards the publication of the link, which could be called false moralism. Anyway, it's good to see that users here react in a friendly way to these things.
That guy is obligated to do so due to legal teams chasing their asses if they don't do it. It's more about them being tolerated, but if a game gets released they have no way out of this.For the record, the guy on the website I mentioned usually takes down links when games are released/re-released on GOG, Steam or any other digital store. So what he does there is "fair use" of a handful of intellectual properties that are not generating revenue for anyone.Abandonware is not a real legal term but an excuse for people to pirate stuff without guilt. On the other hand free use is a legal term, but it has to be established beforehand. Companies don't know how to handle copyright though. This happens because everything's owned by a third party made up of moneybags kinda people. Your publishers.I would say that it is not "piracy", as "piracy" it is illegal trade. The correct term would be "fair use" or "abandonware". In fact, I was already kicked off the GOG forums once when I posted a link to download fully functional GTA 1, which was freeware a few years ago.
Users in general were completely hostile towards the publication of the link, which could be called false moralism. Anyway, it's good to see that users here react in a friendly way to these things.
It's an universal law called "i have the money bags and you don't, so do as I say of get fucked"He's from the UK, so I don't know what the laws are there.
It's available on major general computer websites here, so it's very likely still freeware.
It already kinda is, just not "officially".
Maybe in the EU. I can't see that happening in the USA. That said, it doesn't really matter in most cases, if it isn't for sale, they're probably not going after people for distributing it. Yeah, you could say that games where a superior Amiga port exists where only a DOS version is available for sale should fall into that category, but that's a weird edge case. There's also the odd case like Cookie's Bustle, but I'm really stretching the amount of things that go against it.
