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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:20:48 +0200, Torbjörn Stabo
<tstabo@passagen.dont_want_anything_here.se> wrote:

> Eric wrote:
> > can anyone please upload these files or post a link to where i can download
> > them.
> > i know those files are available at gamespot.com but i can't download from
> > there because the download manager thing they require always crash.
> 
> Have they been uncopyrighted? If so I could do it, but I'd rather have a 
> second opinion first.

Nope, the copyright hasn't been given up.

Gamespot's files are there primarily because EA didn't feel like
making a stink about enforcing their legal copyright on the episode
files.  Gamespot either applied some "creative interpretation" as to
the limited-time nature of the episode 2-7 files, or they're too
lazy/incompetent to remove the files from their servers.  (I could buy
any of the above without much effort on the part of anyone inclined to
argue the point, to be honest; GS doesn't terribly impress me,
overall.)

Unlike trademarks, copyright isn't "use it or lose it", and exists
regardless of whether or not the copyrighted work is readily
available, currently offered for sale, or any of the other common
excuses warezers offer to try to justify being scumbags.

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