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Originally Posted by Tets  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. |
Right sorry and also you can only download a game for free legally if the company who made the game says so. so basicalyy if the company(By company i mean the ones who made the game) says it's legal to download all versions of the above games for free then it's legal but then again they might say that only certain console versions are free so im a bit confused so the best way to know is to call the company and ask them