Abandonware site charges for downloads

From: Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net>
Date: Mon Dec 20 15:28:29 2004

> What do you folks make of this site?
>
> http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/
>
> That have a bunch of software for download. Some of it is Abandonware.
> Or at least it's claimed to be Abandonware. How do we know it's
> Abandonware? They have nothing on their site (that I could find) that
> confirms that these are abandonware, and there are thousands of titles
> there.
>
> They want money if you want to download anything. I can understand them
> wanting to cover their costs, but this seems pretty sleazy to me.
>
> Opinions?

Looks mighty questionable to me too. I bet if someone did some research,
it would show that some number of these things are still owned by someone
else and are not abandonware.

Ashley
Received on Mon Dec 20 2004 - 15:28:29 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:36:39 BST