So using any game box by any company that was for profit but is defunct is still illegal? So why download all these game boxes? Panzer blitz is made for virtually everyone of these programs. But according to a vast majority of people in these kinds of discussions it's not legal to do unless what? You can produce a 30 year old receipt for the game? What about games given as Gifts??? How can I prove I owned them who would even ask me? What lawyer represents a company that folded how many years ago? My Uncle did work for many of these game companies. He gave me copies he has given as sample during the business dealing he had with TSR, FASA, and others. I was lucky in that I rarely had to pay for many TSR wargames. So If a buddy and I hook up over the net so I can teach him to play..we might get sued??? I don't buy that at all. This stuff goes overboard in these conversations.
I can understand a currently running company protecting their stuff. But Hasbro or no Hasbro, Nobody's going to go looking for you if you use a copy of Firefight or some such thing. It's simple not cost effective. If you find a way to make some cash selling say, Hetzer Sniper and the cash is large enough to catch Hasbro's eyes then you'll get a cease and desist order like the PC programmer that was making a GI Joe MOD for some FPS game did. If you blow that off.then yeah you're going to have lawyers "sigged" on you. But for Tom, Dick, and Harry to play a 30 year old game on cyberboard?? No way. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Musler Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CBML] Re: Avalanche Games "...if you were playing on one computer, put the monitor and keyboard on a lazy-susan and spun it between you on a table on different turns, THEN it would be as you describe." Yes, and there's even a word for that because it used to be that games were actually designed to be played that way before ubiquitous connectivity. That style of play is called "hot seating." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
