On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:25:58 -0600, you wrote: Hi,
>To answer the original question: In the US, it's illegal to download any >copyrighted material (including abandonware games). In Canada, I >believe it is okay to download, but not to share. Not sure about other >countries. Thanks Jim, you do remind me! In Hong Kong, until the original owner apply for prosecution procedure, or related to public interest (e.g. Pron or Intellectual property such as popstar's video). Government usually don't go out and sue someone, because they have to obtain information about the item, is it GNU? or public domain? They have no idea. >Practically speaking, of course, I doubt the owners of these old DOS >games will complain much. These days, no one sells DOS games. The >copyright holders may no longer exist as an entity, for shareware games. We can stop immediately if someone speaks. I find some more games, I prefer TYRIAN because it's a very good shooting game, it run even under WinNT4's DOSBox: http://www.marks.freeserve.co.uk/games/downloads.htm Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
