RWarehall...

Just look at your posts. If there's one thing you have did correctly, it's to scare people off from talking to you ever again.

I dunno, I kinda enjoyed the laughs, personally.

Funny how the only study you accept because it agrees with what you want it to say is the crappiest study ever done.
So, people who visit pirate sites for music have 2% more visits to "legal music sites". No mention if they buy anything at all. Ever think the reason they are visiting the legal sites might be to find out what other songs are out there so they can figure out what to pirate next?

Nope...obviously nothing you considered...

Just because 4 of the usual forum trolls jump into the thread: TinyE, Omega, Breja and Zeogold don't prove jack.

The fact you are so convinced you have some right to download any old game for free if you can't find it for sale is ludicrous. Makes you an immoral thief.

Clearly, you haven't even tried to do research on your titles. Claw is the property of Monolith Productions, a division of Warner Brothers entertainment. They have many other games here on GoG.
http://www.lith.com/Games/Captain-Claw

If you want to show them some appreciation I suggest you spend some money on their other games.

Especially in lieu of the fact they seem to be okay with people downloading this particular title for free given that there is a long running fan website which has even done interviews with the game's programmers.

This site even has a download link and patches as well as new levels for the game. So maybe rather than aiding and abetting an abandonware site, how about rewarding a fansite who seems to have been doing the right thing for years including communicating with the developers themselves.
http://www.kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/index.html

Of course I'm sure, you'd just rather download any game you want from abandonware sites without even trying to see what the real status of the game is...as is typical for thieving pirates more interested in playing free games...

Because obviously you looked so hard to see if this game happened to be for sale or not or to find the developers and ask them to release it on GoG (sarcasm).

P.S. Also if you would have done any real research, you would have learned that a sequel was made, but apparently due to some copyright issues with the Captain Claw character, was renamed as Nikita: The Mystery of the Hidden Treasure.
Developer website: http://development.techland.pl/other-games

Wait...I'm a usual forum troll?
Holy crap! After a year here, I've finally achieved legendary status! Woo-hoo!

2017-2012=5 :P

I registered in 2012, but I didn't come to the forum until around December of 2015.

<sarcasm>I wonder, why so many developers (and by developers I mean developers, people who put a lot of efforts in making games, not IP holders) have rather neutral, even acceptive attitude to piracy. While aforementioned IP holders (who just got those games somehow) always cry how piracy dameges game development.</sarcasm>

Ok. That I understand. And I agree. There are indeed much more pressing problems in the world than piracy or gaming or taking care of cats and dogs or eating sweats or ... a million other things. Many of us don't give a damn about others or just don't care enough to do something.

Is there anything that can be done about it realistically?

So basically this topic is another Corporate Knights versus people who don't give a damn ?

But now with more insults!

I didn't even know I was a troll. xD
I guess anyone who disagrees with him is a troll now.

BLOW ME RW!

I am an unusual troll!

Those are now trolls? ..........Okay. For the biillionth time.
How can I steal something that isn't on sale? I still specifically WANT Captain Claw. Don't divert me to 'their other games.' >They seem to be okay
>long running

See a pattern here? That's abandonware sites. They're long-running. By publishers and developers turning a blind eye to them to focus on how their current games are doing, they're effectively saying abandonware sites are A-OK. Silence is often a sign of approval, so when they stay silent, they're approving. That is assuming your issue is more 'YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO SO' and not 'YOU HAVE THROWN MONEY EQUIVALENT TO THE GAME'S VALUE OFF THE WINDOW.'

And finally, I have my copy from this fan-site. I'm 100% sure it is no different than an abandonware site, only with the fact that it's dedicated to Captain Claw. If anything, I could split these abandonware sites into multiple 'fansites' for each abandoned game and you'd be okay. Voila? This fansite hosts ISOs and RIPs of the original game for free, and said original game is sold nowhere (regardless of whether you say research or lack thereof). This fansite IS an abandonware site alright. I do look at the real status of the game. As is typical of you, assuming your opposition's motives. Thank you for telling me that, but with a game name like that, it was bound to never come up to me. My time is precious, and that includes the time I put into this debate or the time I put into researching Claw. Nowadays a Wikipedia article has all the info I need. If otherwise the article feels lacking or incomplete, or incorrect, I can look into other resources and edit the Wikipedia article myself fine. But when I have college work and other duties to attend for, I can't really just put my time into reading more than a Wikipedia article for what I want to.