🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 28 May 1996, TeRRaX wrote:

> In article <4n3ua0$c...@nw101.infi.net>, pce...@norfolk.infi.net (Dean) wrote:
> >
> >Be careful!  If you don't have specific, title-by-title permission from the 
> >publisher to rent the software, you are in violation of the law and the SPA, et
> > 
> >it only makes sense that users want to try the stuff before they drop $70 only 
> >to be stuck with it (reading, Mindscape?  If so, let's talk about my copy of 
> >Air Power...).  You don't buy a car without testdriving, or a house without a 
> >walkthrough, why buy software you can't try out?                
> >
> 
> 
> Strange, Blockbuster rents all kinds of videogames.  Comparing buying a house, 
> or  a car to buying a stupid video game, is kinda silly don't you think?
>  
Yeah, Blockbuster _does_ rent video games for CONSOLE machines (at least 
only CONSOLE machines here in Indiana). It's a 
different story for people renting PC CD-ROMs. A lot of times, if you've 
got the space on your HD, you've got the game. BTW, Blockbuster also has the 
rights to rent these games, it's been established for about 10 years or so, 
since they started renting original NES games. They have made deals with 
the publishers long ago, that's why they are still renting now.
BZR
b...@expert.cc.purdue.edu