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by 486 player » Sun May 29, 2005 8:13 am
Vivendi has DENIED distributing of these games.
There's more info.
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by Gamer_V » Sun May 29, 2005 10:20 am
Aha. So first we could just download them legally and now we can't ??? Right...
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robhofen wrote: no warcraft is a rip off of age of empires and so are a lot of other games
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by Ro@m » Mon May 30, 2005 12:36 am
Denied?why?
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486 player
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by 486 player » Mon May 30, 2005 7:39 am
They has copyrights. I asked what to do to freeware copies, but didn't get the answer yet.
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by Ro@m » Tue May 31, 2005 12:23 am
What do you think will they answer?
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by 486 player » Tue May 31, 2005 9:38 am
'Not at all.'
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Ro@m
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by Ro@m » Tue May 31, 2005 11:37 am
so they will.
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Cholera
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by Cholera » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:32 pm
Its a good thing I downloaded Caesar I a while ago
They just dont make 'em like they used too...
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Gamer_V
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by Gamer_V » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:17 am
I've got Betrayal at Krondor on a cd. I've got Ceasar 2, which is better anyway. Not that it matters, I would download them anyways.
<TABLE width="100%" cellpadding="1" border="0"><TR><TD width="50%">
robhofen wrote: no warcraft is a rip off of age of empires and so are a lot of other games
</TD><TD width="50%">
Larry Laffer wrote: Your people are n00bs
</TD></TABLE><CENTER>
</CENTER> .
Gamer_V
486 player
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by 486 player » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:57 am
They're still nto allowed to distribute, so hold it.
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by Eugene Esterly III » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:33 am
Gamer_V wrote: Aha. So first we could just download them legally and now we can't ??? Right...
Caesar, Red Baron 3-D & Betrayal At Krondor were originally released when Sierra around 1997. At that time, Sierra was there own company. Several years later, Vivendi Universal purchased Sierra which meant that the copyrights on the Sierra games became property of Vivendi.
Well, even though Sierra released these games as freeware, Vivendi doesn't allow free distrubution of these games & Vivendi has the right to stop distrubution because they own the copyrights & this is what Vivendi has done.
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