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That's a source for archives, sure, but can you provide a source for the legality of it?

Ok, let's both calm down here and have a mature conversation.

There's a few things I'm genuinely curious about, and please respond in a polite manner.

1.) Is there a source that outdated versions are legal to archive specifically on a platform you can download them for free?

2.) I did a bit of research on copyright law, and while it's perfectly legal to archive the game, downloading an archived game without permission from the copyright holder is illegal. Is this true?

I'm perfectly fine if you don't want to continue this anymore, by the way.

Then why not upload V0.6? That MUST be legal, as it's an older version that only contains like 95% of the content of the current version.

It's piracy. It's illegal. It doesn't matter if it's old.

Guess what? Simply use the Steam Console and the "download_depot" command. There's a way to download old versions of paid games LEGALLY that you PAID FOR. And downloading it without having paid for the original game is still illegal.

So yes, I understand.

Source?

The point is, no matter what version the game is, sending it out for free is illegal. Like I've said before, V0.1 cost $10. V0.7 costs $10.

Archiving old versions of games is legal, but sending it out for free without express permission from the owner is still illegal.

I do realize that.

Are you in kahoots with mystman? You don't know that he doesn't care. Maybe he doesn't know, maybe he's trying right now.

The fat that the listing for the pirated game are still up does not mean that mystman doesn't care about them.

If you made a paid game, someone pirated it, you didn't know, and then people went around saying it was totally fine and that you didn't care that people pirated it because the listing were still up...I think you can see the problem.

Like I've said numerous times to others, it doesn't matter if it's old. It's still piracy. The game still cost money in V0.1, it costs money now. If the game was FREE while in V0.1, that'd be a totally different story, but it wasn't.

So yes, this is still piracy.

I argue that making this listing cost money is WORSE than making it free, as that would mean money would be going to a pirate. Buy the game from mystman and install oldsport's mod menu yourself. And yes, I believe this lister stole the mod menu from oldsport - the screenshots literally say "oldsport's mod menu".

And just in case you didn't know - Baldi's Basics Plus is NOT owned by peyton36. It is owned by mystman12, better known as the company Basically, Games! who did not give the lister permission to reproduce and redistribute the game for free.

That won't do anything. That would just be supporting a pirate. No proceeds would go to the ACTUAL developer of this game, mystman12.

Yeah, this is piracy. Sorry, but I have to report this.

It's still a PAID GAME. By that logic, I can pirate literally any game I want as long as I pirate an older version.

Yes, it's old. That doesn't matter.

Look, I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to report these listings.

You're releasing a paid game for free. This is piracy and is very illegal.