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I agree. I'm against piracy of games, and that's what cracking the

keys would be. I'm glad I'm not alone. I just hope the games become

available again.

Maybe some could be moved over to other companies. I

know PCS helped in Ten Pin Alley, maybe they could get the rights to that

and possibly one or two others.

Big shame about Aemon, it was promising.

I hope someone takes over as much of Adora as they can.

Even if the games are released as "freeware" what about all those who

purchased copies beforehand? (I guess they'll just have to live with it)

It'd still be illegal Holden. Even emulating old Nintendo games is illegal

even though Nintendo no longer makes money off them and hasn't done for at

least ten years. I do believe however that it's situations like this that

gives rise to many companies' piracy problems. Well it's not quite the

same. To give an example of what I actually mean, the company that makes the

RPG Maker applications for PC has, to my knowledge, never officially

released any in the United States. Thus, the only recourse for Americans,

aside from learning to read, write and understand whatever language the

application was written in I.E. Japanese or whatnot, is Emulation. The

company got so fed up with the fact that people had translated it to English

and made it available to us that they decided not to release the latest

installment over here, when the reason they had the piracy problem in the

first place was more than likely at least partly because of their decision

not to officially release it here in the first place. I wouldn't be

surprised if that was why Nintendo eventually made the original Final

Fantasy II available to us after more than ten years. For those that don't

know, the Super Nintendo game we know of as Final Fantasy II is in fact the

fourth installment of the series, and what we know of as FF3 is in fact FF6.

But anyway, I do understand why some people would feel that if Adora never

comes back their games should be made free or cracked. And as to having

purchased the games beforehand, I'm glad I purchased those that I do have

when I did. I only wish I could have purchased Alien Outback.

Correct. Software liscences do not grant you a copy, but instead act as a

lease for you to use the program.

I don't know about in the US, but in

the UK  software is copyrighted as a literary work, so the same restrictions

as books are in place. It sounds silly, but it was the only way they could

prevent piracy early on... by declaring the code to be a literary work.

Images and sounds are normally copyright under the specific legislation for

imagery and sound/music accordingly.

If they reached a point where the

company was no longer going to resume development or sales, and I stress

*if*, I personally believe it is ethical for the company to release the

program and possibly even the code as freeware. Unfortunately the chances of

this happening are slim, and it still wouldn't make hacking the keys legal

or ethical.

The US laws are similar. The international community recognizes the

copyright laws of the country in which the work was published. In this case,

the US. I believe I posted a link to the US copyright office earlier.

Way

to flaunt illegalities there, Mike. Wise move. *rolls eyes*