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Offline kedawa

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Cloanto is in a dubious position considering that AF2008(?) shipped with at least one game that they most likely didn't have proper rights to.  The version of Arkanoid that came with my friend's copy was only licensed for distribution in Europe (we're in Canada), so even if the original publisher was ok with it, the North American publishing rights belonged to a different company entirely.  I very much doubt that either the European or North American publisher's original licensing deal with Taito is even valid anymore to begin with, and I would be very surprised if Cloanto has any formal arrangement with Taito.
And then there's the issue of using cracked versions of software.  I wonder if they have permission from the crackers to profit from their work.
If Cloanto has actually managed to sort out the tangled mess of rights and licenses, then holy shit, you better watch out.
 

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I don't think Cloanto is that big of an organization.  I would be quite surprised if they had even one in-house lawyer.