Lasse Karlsson writes:
> I may be mistaken, but if Pentax holds the copyright to the MX Manual I very
> much doubt that they will go after someone providing an 25 year old MX manual
> for free. In fact they might consider it as a free service rendered them,
> relieving them from having to spend time and money in keeping up their good-will
> by sending out copies of it themselves. I mean, it's not like they are making
> any money on it, is it? But, as I said, I may be wrong.
This reminds me of a thread I saw in Slashdot recently about
"abandonware": computer software which is no longer available. It applied
mostly to old games.
Some people are freely distributing copies of them, which is technically
illegal (which is why the copyright holders aren't too pleased about it) but
there's no other way to get them as the copyright owners are not making
them available for sale or even free download, so the public misses out and
legally speaking they can't do anything about it.
Cheers,
- Dave
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