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So why go into the trouble of getting permission to distribute old games when most people copy them anyway?
Although these games may be old they are still under copyright for about 50 years and you are still pirating the software. What we aim to do is to be fair to the developers & publishers by allowing them to decide whether a game can or cannot become public property. If they then agree then you can safely & legally obtain that game free of any charge from POGACS or licenced site.

How will this system work, how can I be sure that what I'm using is legimate?
Whenever we get a game licenced we will distrubute it in a package with the original installation and a copy of the public licence agreed between POGACS and the company with control of the game. This licence will contain information on redistrubution, copying, ownership, and other conditions set by the company. I will be also trying to ensure that other websites will be able to carry the software as well. You can make sure that your software is legimate by looking for the POGACS agreement ('POGACS.TXT') in the distrubution and the POGACS logo on whichever site you downloaded the software from.

What role does POGACS play in games that they sucessfully manage to obtain?
When we gain a licence for a game POGACS will take on the administration of the game, by organising it disrubution & policing the conditions in the game's POGACS agreement. We will not be selling these games & neither will anyone else except by the terms in the agreement which will roughly follow shareware agreements.

Does POGACS intend to do anything else apart from legimise old games?
Yes we have plenty of other thing we would like to pursue. We are also trying to legimise the grey area of console/computer emulation by trying to get the BIOS's publically licenced and also in conjunction with emulator programmers, get official endorsement of an emulator from the machine's producer. We would also like to pursue to a lesser extend the public release of old software that may still be of use. Another area that we may also try is getting the public release of old games plus their source code so that programmers can adapt and learn from old games.

Is there money involved in any way?
As little as possible, POGACS is a vountary society and will not resell old games. Hopefully we should be self sustaining enough that we shouldn't need any money at all, although if ever do need money to continue POGACS or to fund public releases it will be done through donations and/or advertisments, we will never charge for the software or charge fees for the games or membership to POGACS.

Who is POGACS and can I help?
POGACS is founder & managed by Douglas Gore. Anyone can join POGACS and/or help us. If you want to join contact us (click the contact link), we are looking for members at the moment. It would be really useful if anyone can help us by helping to contact and track games companies and to ask them about releasing their old games through POGACS. Maybe you work or have worked in a games company yourself, ask the company boss or whoever takes care of these matters about release of their back catalog of games.

Who really benefits from POGACS?
You, the public benefits mosts, but also developers and publishers are benefiting too, through a controlled release of their games rather than uncontrolled illegal distrubutions. Webmasters of games distrubution sites can also benefit from POGACS work as it allows them to link to 100% legal games downloads. Organisations like the IFDA who represent games developers are around just to prevent the illegal distrubution of games, but they won't ever be able to stop all the site. They don't attempt the revolutionary steps we trying by comprimising between nostalgic games players & developers.