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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Bioshock Remastered - GoG free
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:21:43 -0800
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On 11/14/2024 11:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 17:40 this Thursday (GMT):
>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:40:04 -0000 (UTC), in
>> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>
>>> Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 12:03 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>>> On 11/11/2024 2:40 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 16:54 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>>> On 11/9/2024 7:20 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>>>> kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 00:45 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There likely is a difference between how the contracts for both work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or Nintendo simply has good lawyers at hand to work the kinks out, while
>>>>>>>> Valve just doesn't want to bother.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nintendo DEFINITELY has good lawyers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> House of Mouse level good?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I don't think Nintendo has rewritten any laws, so not yet.
>>>>
>>>> well, they famously put King Kong into the public domain (trying to
>>>> defend Donkey Kong)
>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't that a good thing?
>>
>> Only accidentally.
> 
> 
> Still a positive.

Debatable.  Copyright actually is a good thing as long as it is neither 
too strong or too weak.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.