A petition wouldn't help at all. In fact it might even worsen the situation. A company that has the copyright would see that a lot of people want the game and might decide to put these games up for sale again - thus it would be even harder to download them (and I don't think they'd put the games out on the global market again - probably just US & Canada, so we still couldn't get them in Europe).
To pay ESA... Well as I understand it ESA is just suporting the copyrights - I don't think they have them. So we'd actually be bribing them to look the other way. We'd need the authorisation form the company that made the game (or the one tha tbought the copyrights).
No 3 - I don't even wanna know! As Kosta is the owner of the site and he has Croatian citizenship (at least I'm fairly certain he has it), that this would mean the site falls under Croatian laws and the international treaties that Croatian has signed. But even if this would give us a loop-hole it would still create numerous problems as this is an international comunity. So some people could leagaly download the games, while others couldn't. We'd have to prevent visitors form countries that need to respect ESA to get the games, as otherwise this could actually be seen as smuggling the games into a certain country... It's extremely complicated really - so unless laws change...
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