Re: 1WSW folder - Ground Mirror - GONE!

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

In article Pine.A32.3.93.960501122958.219392B-100000@freenet3.afn.org,
	Don Pattee Jr <afn40469@afn.org> said:
>
>My goodness, look what I have found. I have found a copy of Q-Burt,
>SnakeByte, Defender, and I know I used to have a copy of DigDug, and I have
>a copy of Spy Hunter.
>
>They are all in teh public domain, freeware/shareware. They also wer all
>copyrighted video arcade games. Whoever was saying you can`t give Pacman
>away for free needs to chase down all these other terrible bad people. heh.
>
>Some people around here need to relax. If anybody thinks that they are going
>to save the world by not allowing a very old, out of print, SHAREWARE
>version of a game to be released....well.....

If you read the notes that come with Defender, you'll find that the author had written that with the intention of making money with it, but he couldn't get a license or =any= kind of deal from the copyright holder, so he dumped it into the public domain in frustration.  It was at the time beyond a doubt a clear copyright infringement; I imagine that he wasn't sued because the copyright holder could not demonstrate that he was making anything off of it.  At least, I don't think he was sued.

The guy seemed to be really unhappy about it all.

I don't know how this impacts your above statement; just thought I'd throw it into the mix here.

TomZ