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Tets · 08-31-2008, 12:08 AM

The "24 hour rule" is and always has been false. It is no more than a fake rule that video game pirates came up with back in the day when they still felt they had to convince people that what they were doing was legal. It's not used so much anymore. Maybe the pirates are more shameless or maybe it's just so easy to obtain pirated software that everyone is desensitized to it. Regardless, it never was an actual rule. No commercial game distributor would ever have agreed to terms like that.

Master15, the question is whether or not it is legal to download all versions of the above games even though only the PC versions have been released for free by their developer. Gadget1 isn't just asking if it's OK to download the games because he found them for free on any server. He saw the PC versions are now legitimate freeware (they have been for a few years now) and was asking if that makes it legal to download the PS1 versions. Unfortunately, it does not. I'm not actually sure if it would be within Rockstar's rights to declare the PS1 ports as freeware or if they would need to run that by Sony first, but either way, it's still illegal.

08-31-2008, 12:08 AM	#7 (permalink)
Tets Senior Member I Modded My PSP Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Charlotte, MI Posts: 365 Firmware Installed: 5.00 M33-3	A question about PSX games for the PSP The "24 hour rule" is and always has been false. It is no more than a fake rule that video game pirates came up with back in the day when they still felt they had to convince people that what they were doing was legal. It's not used so much anymore. Maybe the pirates are more shameless or maybe it's just so easy to obtain pirated software that everyone is desensitized to it. Regardless, it never was an actual rule. No commercial game distributor would ever have agreed to terms like that. Master15, the question is whether or not it is legal to download all versions of the above games even though only the PC versions have been released for free by their developer. Gadget1 isn't just asking if it's OK to download the games because he found them for free on any server. He saw the PC versions are now legitimate freeware (they have been for a few years now) and was asking if that makes it legal to download the PS1 versions. Unfortunately, it does not. I'm not actually sure if it would be within Rockstar's rights to declare the PS1 ports as freeware or if they would need to run that by Sony first, but either way, it's still illegal.