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Here, Snapper <Snapper@fish.net> wrote:
> 
> I've been out of gaming for sometime (5-7 years) and just recently got
> back in.  Surprise, surprise....where did everybody go?  This
> newsgroup used to be really active.

Usenet is dead; been dead for years. 

That is not to say that this newsgroup is dead -- it's not -- but
people wander out and almost nobody wanders in.
 
> Needless to say I missed a lot of games when they first came out and
> some of them you can only get now by downloading them off the
> Internet.  I went to GOG to check them out and see what they were
> about.  They say you don't need an Internet connection to play.  That
> sounds great but my question is, is there any drawback to downloading
> these games?  Is there a catch that I am unaware of? 

Not that I know of.

> They say you can download them as many times as you want. Why isn't
> once enough?

In case your hard drive crashes. Or you buy a new computer and don't
think to copy everything your hard drive has accumulated in the past N
years.

--Z

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