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This article is from the General Pinball FAQ, by Keith Johnson keefer@access.digex.net with numerous contributions by
others.
1.10 - Wouldn't it be a great idea to keep binaries of pinball games?
Yep. Unfortunately, we can't. The reason is, quite simply, our old friend
the Copyright. The manufacturers' lawyers won't allow any storage for public
access of anything having to do with their games. This includes scans of
playfields and the promotional flyers they give out to advertise their games!
So why is this the case? Basically, we have too many lawyers in the USA.
Seriously, the reason that has been regurgitated by the manufacturers is that
they don't want any distribution of their copyrighted material that isn't
under their control. So why don't they start something that IS under their
control? Good question.
This has been brought up a number of times, so you really shouldn't consider
bringing it up again. We are serious. Do *NOT* ever post binaries to rgp.
It's a bad, *bad*, BAD, *BAD* idea. The main reason is because it is not a
binaries group and many people who get their newsfeeds via modems, UUCP, and
all that other good stuff rely on this fact so that they don't get bogged
down with a sudden 750K of stuff on a group that rarely gets over 40K a day.
If you really *must* post something because not even I will keep it for
public FTP for awhile, post it to alt.binaries.misc or something like that
and post a pointer of it in rgp.
With the Archive's move to CMU, Kevin has added a binaries subdirectory, but
it mostly contains demos of computer pins and images.
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