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Originally Posted by CatKnight
'Home of the Underdogs' is/was an abandonware site...so outdated versions of games or those no longer sold might be found there.
flanyboy is saying that, though the practice of letting older games leak out is questionable (read: illegal) from a copyright standpoint, it does lead to legitimate sales and can serve as an introduction to the hobby. More vigorous copyright enforcers like EA/Ubi may want to take note.
Now, is he right? Meh. I understand both arguments. I can tell you though that I used 'Underdogs' to get the original Mogul (98) at a time when I was out of work, and as my situation improved that led me to first get into 'modern' Mogul, then OOTP.
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Ok. But OOTPD (and their old publisher SI) never just "allowed" their older games to "leak out." They outright released it as abandonware. They own the title themselves and can do that.
But I see now that flanyboy5 was talking about Home of the Underdogs as the site with "questionable practices with copyrights."