The Source Ltd

[HANDsolo]

www.thesourceltd.com

The first time I came across this site was about 8 years ago. I came across it again this morning. What's the deal with this? I thought they would be in jail by now.

Say hypothetically, that a friend of mine had two old PC games (which you can't get locally anymore) where one had the CD break and the other was stolen. He still has the boxes and the manuals of said games. Would it be wrong to get "backups" of those games from this site?

 

[Solitude]

That's a weird site, busy looking at it now. It looks like it's based in Cape Town?

I can't see the prices currently. I'll go look a bit more before giving a better view.

*edit*

According to their conditions of use I'm not allowed to view their site since I'm a software developer. Eh according to them they can actually sue me if I make use of their site and cause problems.

Laymen's terms:

You are not allowed to enter our site without our permission. If you enter the site you are trespassing upon private property! This site is for looks only and nothing more!

Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning!

You are about to enter a privately operated web site using privately owned computing equipment. As such, we reserve the right to refuse access to any individual or group. Any individual belonging to any of the following organizations are prohibited from going any further into this web site and must promptly redirect their web browser to another site and remove any "bookmarks" or "favourites" in their web browsers which point to this site:

Law Enforcement Agency

Software Developer

Software Publisher

Postal Service

Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Intellectual Property "Watchdog" Groups

If you belong to any of the above groups then we kindly ask you redirect your web browser to another web site. Any abuse to the system, despite having fully read and understood the above, may result in legal action against you or your organization.

Entering the site despite these warnings may result in the violation of code 431.322.12 of the internet security act of 1995.

 

[HANDsolo]

They cover themselves by stating that they are only providing a backup service for people that own the originals. So, they aren't doing anything illegal.

 

[Azimuth]

"Entering the site despite these warnings may result in the violation of code 431.322.12 of the internet security act of 1995."

No such thing. What a load of rot.