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[Adamg]

Abandonia does break the law, though we are pretty nice about it. We work with companies to find compromises and even stop distributing on request. Fortunately there are some producers and developers who realize that letting the public have their old games can actually be very good for business. Rockstar, for example, released the first Grand Theft Auto to the public free of charge. Many companies have done that. Telltale released an episode of Sam & Max from Season 1 for free as well.

People who run sites like the one in question, however, commit many more crimes than we do. These guys don't distribute old games to people for free so they can enjoy them. They trick their visitors and sell them illegal goods, sometimes even stealing bandwidth while doing it. Many of them even plagarize reviews. That's not a crime, unless you put a copyright notice on it. (Which is free, by the way.) It is, however, extremely annoying and rude. Yeah, we give games and material away for free, but at least we don't scam people. Like I said, it's good publicity for the companies anyway.

As for preventing other websites from leeching from Abandonia, it would be impossible to stop all of it. But I believe it would be worth the time to put up some basic protection. We could save bandwidth and prevent people from being robbed at the same time. Not only that, a lot of them would appreciate Abandonia telling them what was going on.