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Copyrights granted AFTER that point cannot be renewed.ĭiablo (1) was released in 1997. copyright protection lasts for a minimum of SEVENTY YEARS.Ĭopyrights granted in the USA prior to 1978 can be renewed, periodically, for periods of 28 years a piece. IMO if you are using a product, without compensation, that you don't have a right to use or distribute, it's piracy.
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)ĬatintheHeat: Is there a statute of limitations on copyright protections? If a company still owns software they can sue and issue cease and desist letters, even if they aren't using the product. The Abandonware sites are not "hidden" or otherwise hard to find, and no one is being cheated out of anything-for obvious reasons. So, no, "abandonware" does not automatically equal "piracy" if no one knows who owns the IP and no one steps forward to claim ownership of that IP.
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Evidence of the ownership and the source code were simply lost/destroyed, etc. Lost IPs like this could be sold a number of times to a chain of different people-and then put in a drawer somewhere and forgotten for a decade or more-literally-along with the paperwork! That actually happened with some of the Baldur's Gate IP-the original owners actually *lost the source code*-to which title I cannot remember-but it had been in a basement that suffered a flood, or some such. In the Hellfire case, for instance, there is no telling how many people have owned that IP at one time or another after Sierra sold it-which is almost certainly the case, I should think. I'm not sure that "abandoned" is the right word-maybe "lost IP" is a better description. I'm thinking the IP situation is very much like company trademarks-if you do not assert your trademarks and defend them when someone usurps them then you lose them-legally. This happened almost immediately-trust me when I say GOG knows these sites and when it obtains marketing rights for distribution of a formerly abandoned IP it is very quick to alert these abandonment sites and to their credit they are very quick to change the IP's status and put in the links to GOG.
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IE, the IP has been "abandoned." Literally.īut that can change-for instance one abandonware site I looked at used to distribute Diablo 1 free as abandoned (one of many games I've seen this happen to)-but now links to GOG since the IP is being marketed again by Blizzard and distributed by GOG. I also think that if such persons do not step forward when such IP is distributed on abandonware sites then it is in indicator that no one objects to its free distribution. But if no one claims the IP or objects to its being distributed as abandonware then it becomes impossible to know who-if anyone-actually owns the IP, since no one claims it. In the first place, Hellfire was a Sierra add-on for D1, IIRC. Abandonware website distributes games without author's permission, so it is piracy. Since I tend to botch every simple task, I am quite sure I am missing some easy, basic, and possibly stupid thing while trying to run all this: could anyone point out what I am doing wrong? I feel incredibly stupid not just to be unable to get out a single value by myself, but even being unable to use the pre-compiled table already available.Lord_Casque_Noir: Abandonware is piracy even if you negate it. Tried the same trick even with "Mana Regen", switching ManaRegen objects on my char to get the value to change, but the result is always the same: first scan turns out some values, second scan turns out none. If the first scan turns out some values, the second always turns out none. Scan Type: "Exact Value" (Rounded (default)) Trying doing the job by myself, I seem to be unable to locate ANY address within the game (basically, with a Sorcerer, I'd just need to "freeze" the Mana value to be able to wreac havoc around). I downloaded the latest CheatEngine table for Belzebub (posted previously here on this thread), but all the values are displayed as "?" and not selectable/editable (plus, if I click on "Encode" or "Decode" value, the game crashes).Įven after entering the game and browsing all the tab that display the relative values (as showin in the linked above YT video), CE seems to do not recognize them.
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