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"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:18:38 +0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure he can find lots of other "Crimes" committed by people still
>> alive that were not crimes when they did them.
>
>Just stop this embarrassing apology.
>
>He made money by selling others property.
>It doesn't matter that Poland permitted the thievery.

It matters a great deal.  
You're not a criminal if what you do is not a crime.
When what he had been doing became a crime there, he stopped doing it.

>And nowadays his company make money by selling someone else' works.
>Be it games themselves or cracks by hackers.

They license the games, and the cracks (if they do actually use them)
were always intended to be distributed widely.
If the authors of those cracks want compensation all they'd have to do
is go to court and prove they wrote them.
Of course that would open them to massive legal repercussions under the
DMCA and other things so that's kind of unlikely.

>PS. I am pretty sure Roberta Williams or Al Lowe do not get a cent
> from those King's Quest, Larry sales.

Of course they don't, they don't own the rights, they never owned the
rights, Sierra Entertainment did, and they got bought, transferring
those rights to the new owners (Vivendi Universal, who later merged with
Activision and are now known as Activision Blizzard.)

Activision Blizzard owns King's Quest.

According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
GOG has signed deals with a number of publishers including:
    Activision
    Adventure Soft
    Apogee Software
    Atari
    Codemasters
    Coktel Vision
    Cyan Worlds
    DotEmu
    Electronic Arts
    Empire Interactive
    Enlight Software
    Epic Games
    Firefly Studios
    Focus Home Interactive
    Frogwares
    Funcom
    Horrorsoft
    Interplay
    JoWooD
    Majesco
    Metropolis Software
    Microïds
    Oddworld Inhabitants
    Rebellion
    Revolution Software
    Running with Scissors, Inc.
    Remedy Entertainment
    Sierra On-Line
    Square Enix
    Strategy First
    Team17
    TopWare Interactive
    Trilobyte
    Ubisoft
    Wordplay LLC (Access Software)

>PPS. BTW, if you are going to stick to this "it was permitted" thing,
>I strongly advise you google for "Bokassa cannibalism" and think
>how man, who _ate_ thousands peoples, was cleared of the charges in
>the court. And what personally you feel about the matter.

Oh you mean the guy who went to court charged with Treason, Murder and
Cannibalism and was cleared of the cannibalism charges because there was
no evidence and convicted of the other charges and sentenced to death?

Gee, what's a court to do, require evidence or just convict based on
rumors?
See
http://histbusters.blogspot.ca/2009/05/cannibal-emperor.html
among others

If he actually ate "thousands of people" there'd have been evidence or
at least some credible witnesses, but neither were ever found.

Occam's Razor: there never was any cannibalism, it was just a smear
campaign to justify his overthrow.


Let me guess, you get all your "facts" from Fox News and the Tabloids?

Xocyll