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While the owners of C&C made them available for free. Thus they can be legally downloaded, even directly from within OpenRA.

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Cheers to those guys. I never understand the thought process of obstructing the use of materials that are so old in video-game-years. Without the community they (these assets) will just sit in the closet and die.

In most cases it is that various rights are held by defunct or disinterested parties and so it's near impossible to get relicensing done legally.

I can only speculate that some fear it might hurt the saleskf later editions and other new games (which is a bad reason)

And there seems to be some market for nostalgia around selling old games. We can see new versions of old consoles, bundles of old games (with preconfigured emulators), ...

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