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Major Tom wrote:
> 
> I love this game. But of course, that goes without saying...
> 
> I purchased a cd called 'Duke Assault' -- it has over 1500 levels, along
> with some other doo-dah's. It's dated 1996 and put out by a co NOT
> 3d-realms.
> 
> Personally, I think it's a bit shadey to sell someone else's work.
> Someone put effort into producing the levels. And if they want to give
> it away, that's their perrogative. But i don't think you can charge any
> more than cost in good conscience...

I don't have Duke Assault, but I have similar collections for Duke, Doom
and Heretic.  I believe most of these are collections of shareware or
freeware levels which the publisher has gotten permission to include on
their CD (at least I hope they have), and they were all under $10.00
US.  I see it as a way for people without internet access to get the
add-on levels which are available free to us who are on the net.  

As to the publisher making money, each CD includes a graphic interface
which makes it easy to sort, search, and load the levels.  I think the
company deserves a little profit for their interface and for making the
levels available in a collection.  Think of how much time you would
spend downloading 1,000 levels.  Isn't that worth something?