Guest Share Posted July 22, 2014 I recently stumbled upon the Internet Archive's collection of software, and noticed their CD Archive, which has both shareware games and full versions of games originally included on cover CDs. However, given some of the full games contained within the collection, such as SimCity 2000, are still sold, I'm wondering about the legality of the full games contained within. Does anyone have any insight? Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Share Posted July 23, 2014 Actually, I found the answer to my question in this thread. TL;DR: Technically, the CD Archive is illegal due to it containing commercial software, but they can get away with it since most companies don't find it cost-effective to enforce the rights to their IPs for stuff like this. Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Share Posted July 23, 2014 What, really? That's ridiculous Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirh 103 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Internet Archive does stole nothing. It simply archives what's already freely available online. And I'm perfectly sure they'll fully comply with every DCMA claim they could ever receive Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marioysikax 89 Share Posted July 23, 2014 So just like abandonware but instead company being dead those companies simply don't care. Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneReaper 51 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Can we provide links to these ISO downloads? Or do we treat them as abandonware and forgo them entirely? Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Share Posted July 24, 2014 Can we provide links to these ISO downloads? Or do we treat them as abandonware and forgo them entirely? I would say that's something which deserves its own thread. :) Reply (Quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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