Diamond/S3 had a series of driver CDs that
were meant for the vendor and service level.
Those were called "ServiceCD" and contained
a current driver collection of all products.

I have to assume that the last release is
at least two years old and might be in stock
for misc people since they were for sale 
(for an effort refund of about 12 Euro)
on e.g. the CeBit fair. Of course only small
shop PC builders and alikes would have interest
in having those media instead of a per driver
download from the internet. But as of now
they may be aware having such a CD on the shelf.
(Hmm, let me think i am a shelf owner myselves.)

I dont know about Diamond/S3 policy of today,
but i assume they just want to save hosting costs 
and any sort of server maintainence trouble.
To my knowledge the stock price for the
copmany's shares (nasdaq:SBLU) is close 
to go into the US-Cent breakage.

I suppose they have to sell their copyright
ownership of those drivers in some time or
it will not be of much value anyway. Maybe
some drivers dot com or alikes will pay a
few dollars for getting the publishing right.

The rights for the sources and the documentation
might be more difficult to deal with since
at least for the grafics area there was those
joint venture with VIA. And they are still in
business, so they might have sufficent rights
pending and done agreements in that area that
could impact anything.

-Alex.
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