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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: halfsteel on February 25, 2003, 06:34:51 pm

Title: is it legal?
Post by: halfsteel on February 25, 2003, 06:34:51 pm: is it legal for me to download the sound files for the game freespace2? I dont need the cutscenes, but music would be nive to.
Title: is it legal?
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 25, 2003, 06:56:44 pm: No need to download the sound files.... just go here (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/freespace/downloads.shtml) and grab VPView and the few files of the soundtrack that're there.
Title: is it legal?
Post by: halfsteel on February 25, 2003, 07:59:37 pm: this is for the free version of Freespace2, not the bought version.
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Post by: Solatar on February 25, 2003, 08:09:16 pm: Sure, find someone with a fast connection to upload them for you. They aren't in the free version simply to keep the download as small as possible.
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Post by: halfsteel on February 25, 2003, 08:27:56 pm: i want some more support on this.
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Post by: Anaz on February 25, 2003, 08:55:43 pm: He is right. All of FS2 has been released to the public, but the download at HOTU didn't need to be any bigger than it already was (it is still a bit large right now...253 megs...). So certain files were excluded.
Title: is it legal?
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2003, 03:44:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by halfsteel
i want some more support on this.

Well if you haven`t had a look at my HotU FAQ (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/hotu.html) you should.
Title: is it legal?
Post by: Tiara on February 26, 2003, 04:39:57 am: If I had a place for it to be uploaded I would... But I have nowhere to upload a 122 MB .rar file :p
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Post by: Razor on February 26, 2003, 08:39:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by Analazon
He is right. All of FS2 has been released to the public,

Does taht also include Hi-res maps? 1024*768
Title: is it legal?
Post by: Tiara on February 26, 2003, 08:45:18 am: They aren't on HOTU but they can be legally distrbuted. :nod:

Now, anyone with enough bandwith to host the sound files (stu_fs.vp) in .rar format (122 MB)?
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Post by: Fafner on February 26, 2003, 01:05:02 pm: My reading of the HOTU situation is that its not really legal in the strict sense, but no one at V or Interplay care enough to bother to take legal action. V may even approve of it, but cant do so publicly as interplay own the rights to FS.

Please correct me if im wrong. :)
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 26, 2003, 03:42:54 pm: The major gaming companies are well aware of HOTU- it's the closest thing to an archnemesis the ISDA has, except for maybe some particularly large warez ring. If any company wants to do anything about it, all it takes is an email to get UD to take down the game. No email? Then they clearly don't care. It's free publicity at the sacrifice of something they're not gonna make money on anymore.
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Post by: Fury on February 27, 2003, 09:41:22 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
They aren't on HOTU but they can be legally distrbuted. :nod:

Now, anyone with enough bandwith to host the sound files (stu_fs.vp) in .rar format (122 MB)?

Patched FS2 files, voices, music and high-res support should be available in less than four hours in my site. These files may still become unavailable without further notice.

Sorry but no command briefing anims, tech room anims or cutscenes.
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Post by: Tiara on February 27, 2003, 10:30:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury

Sorry but no command briefing anims, tech room anims or cutscenes.

Can't ya just take the ani .vp files put it in a .rar archive along with the cutscenes as well?
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Post by: Fury on February 27, 2003, 11:02:52 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara

Can't ya just take the ani .vp files put it in a .rar archive along with the cutscenes as well?

Well, let's do a bit of calculation. Command briefing anims and cutscenes takes together 850 MB. Even with 50% compression it is still 425 MB, and I bet it will be closer to 25% compression than 50%.

I can be forced to delete the files that are currently being uploaded.

You just have no idea what you just asked...
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Post by: Fury on February 27, 2003, 01:41:07 pm: FS2 high-res, music and voice downloads (http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fury/fs2_hotu/)
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Post by: Tiara on February 27, 2003, 01:53:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury

You just have no idea what you just asked...

Yes I do, but I didn't know you'd have such a hard time getting there. :p
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Post by: karajorma on February 27, 2003, 02:33:30 pm: I`ll put up a link in my FAQ straight away. Thanks Fury
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Post by: Fury on February 27, 2003, 02:52:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara

Yes I do, but I didn't know you'd have such a hard time getting there. :p

It's hard when you're supposed to have only 50MB of webspace, I can only wonder how far you can go if quotas are disabled. ;)
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Post by: Fafner on February 27, 2003, 04:52:58 pm: Great initiative Fury!(http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/happy/xyxthumbs.gif)
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on February 28, 2003, 02:51:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury

It's hard when you're supposed to have only 50MB of webspace, I can only wonder how far you can go if quotas are disabled. ;)

I have 150 megs webspace left. How big are the CBanis(alone)?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 28, 2003, 07:35:41 pm: The CB anis are in there, nyet?