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Originally Posted by gargoyle67
Err because it now belongs to Activision not Edyagi, And if in the future they want to re-release them at some point it would hurt their sales if you could just get them for free.
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the l google vs book publishers case was over the ethics of burying old copyrights in corporate cellars, for works which the "owners" had no intention of ever re-publishing , just to deprive others of access to them.
LOL - they've been free for years - just look on Google or any torrent search engine; and if Activison had any intention of selling them, they'd not have deleted them from their games catalogues.,and would not have destroyed the Infocom brand.
As it is, I bought them all once for Amiga, once again for dos/Win95 - there's no way I'd buy them a 3rd time just to play on a different device, but I heartily approve of them being put into circulation again for Kindle users.
when its reaches the point that not 1 cent of any future sales will ever reach the game creators then its time to rebel :-)
PS IIRC, all the PC game versions were DOS based & had to run in a DOS window - were I to search the attic for my WIN 95 box set & load it into my Win 7 PC, I'd probably get the the microsoft equivalent of "you must be kidding" - 'twold take considerable time & money to rework them all for today's OS.