Hi Charles, Well, unless explicitly notified otherwise even when Blindsoftware.com, AKA Justin, retains full copyright and ownership of all software, sounds, music, etc contained in the software package. Even if he abandons them and gives this key generator away for $75 that does not entitle anyone else to ownership of the games either. However, since people did legally purchase the key generator for $75 I believe they legally can charge to generate keys since they are actually selling a service not the software itself. Does that make sense?
Perhaps a similar concept is how Linux developers often make their money. Since Linux is free and open source the software can be downloaded for free. However, since the people who maintain the software need to make money they sell their services such as phone or e-mail support, sell their services as onsite support, whatever. They aren't selling you any software but their services. The same idea applies here. The people generating the keys aren't selling you the software only the service of creating new keys for your computer. Cheers! On 4/18/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > To those of you who have gotten games from BSC Games: Read the license > agreement. Who owns these products? Question: After their doors close, > who will own them? We have purchased the right to use what BSC still > retains the ownership of. I'm thinking, maybe wrongly, that BSC will be > abandoning their software. If, as Justin has said, that the doors are > closing "for ever", I would think that after, and not before, that time, the > sharing of keys for those abandoned products, as well as those abandoned > products themselves, would be OK. However, the selling of such products and > keys would not be legal. They would become freeware. This is only > speculation on the part of someone who is by no means a "legal eagle". > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
