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[Jake Grey]

Has anyone ever actually emailed the developers and/or publishers of a game sold on CDAccess to see if they're an authorised reseller?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Not that I know of.

[_r.u.s.s.]

well, i can imagine the conversation

"Hello, are you an authorised reseller?"
"Yes"

[dosraider]

In fact J.Grey asked about the devs/publishers... not CDAccess.


Nevertheless @_r.u.s.s.

[Jake Grey]

It's definitely something worth looking into, I reckon. If CDAccess buy up some wholesale outfit's remaindered stock, as I suspect they must do in the case of many of the older games in their inventory, that puts them on roughly the same legal footing as someone selling their personal copy on eBay.

[ltsajber]

Originally Posted by Jake Grey

It's definitely something worth looking into, I reckon. If CDAccess buy up some wholesale outfit's remaindered stock, as I suspect they must do in the case of many of the older games in their inventory, that puts them on roughly the same legal footing as someone selling their personal copy on eBay.

I couldn't agree more.

[dosraider]

Except they are a legit shop, not a private person .....

[The Fifth Horseman]

The only things we could say is that some of their operation and stock seems to be rather suspicious:
* They offer some games in package formats those games were never originally published in
* They offer some games whose description admits are labeled "Not for resale" (likely copies from magazine cover CD's or OEM's) - and thus are violating that very rule.
* They used to offer pre-orders of games which were known for a long time to have been cancelled (I think archive.org could help in digging up the proof for alleged availability of Full Throttle 2)

[Jake Grey]

It doesn't actually matter if they're are a limited company or not. CDAccess probably didn't even exist when copies of some of these games went out of production, so they're almost certainly remaindered stock; effectively, CDAccess are selling secondhand games, and certainly aren't paying their publishers a penny in royalties.
At any rate, I'm going to make a list of the publishers with oldware on CDAccess and draft an email asking them to confirm or deny this. If the admin staff here want to put their names to it they can do so, otherwise I'll represent myself strictly as a private individual.

[ltsajber]

Originally Posted by Jake Grey

It doesn't actually matter if they're are a limited company or not. CDAccess probably didn't even exist when copies of some of these games went out of production, so they're almost certainly remaindered stock; effectively, CDAccess are selling secondhand games, and certainly aren't paying their publishers a penny in royalties.
At any rate, I'm going to make a list of the publishers with oldware on CDAccess and draft an email asking them to confirm or deny this. If the admin staff here want to put their names to it they can do so, otherwise I'll represent myself strictly as a private individual.

You have my support.