First post, by mrmike1949
Is there such a thing? Most software is a "single user license" to USE the software; legally, you do NOT own it and cannot sell it.
I'm pretty sure that you can't find original shrink wrapped Eye of the Beholder games (for PC) on EBay or Amazon or anywhere else.
And as far as that goes, I have purchased all 3 games when they first came out.Of course the disks/manuals/etc are long gone to the great recycle bin in the sky.
But let's pretend that my disks where broken or just "lost" - what now?? Can I get the company to send me replacement disks?? HA! HA! HA! HA!
ROFL a whole f*ing bunch
As for a few suggestions that the "crack" is bad - seems unlikely to me (to be VERY polite about it): this game (EOB 1) is ~ 17 or 18 years old, and the ONLY copy protection was the need for the manual to provide "passwords". It's been a long time, but I think that EOB1 came on floppy disk, it would fit on 2 hd floppys- no "crack" needed.
Anyone that has the original disks/manual: does it say you can make backup copies of the disks??? If so, than I don't see any possible way for a downloaded version to go bad.
Regarding "Abandonware" : yeah this is somewhat a gray area, but most of these games are actually abandoned- the companies dead, any IP likely went to creditors. Wouldn't surprise me if Dell or HP owned some games rec'd via bankruptcy court. I really doubt that anyone will ever spend the money to "defend" these games - they'd have to show that they "lost money", "suffered damage" ; hard to do when maybe 10,000 people in the world are still playing these old games. How do you get shelf space at the game store with small of a potential market. And how much would you pay for Eye of the Beholder 20th anniversary issue?? It wold be a real stretch to have someone try to collect from the Dosbox group, since almost none of these games would even run without Dosbox or something similar, and the actual game downloads are WIDELY available.
I agree with the comment that common sense and the law often don't agree, but I'll still go with common sense
Mike K
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