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Oh, sorry, I thought it still was Abandonware.
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Abandonware is still illegal. Abandonware means that the developers abandoned it, it doesn't mean that the copyright is off of it, and the elder scrolls series will continue to be copyright so long as ES games keep coming out.
That's even on the link to the site you gave-
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But isn't abandonware illegal?
Unfortunately, yes. Despite the fact that publishers no longer derive revenues from these games since they have stopped selling them (and any revenues from retailers that still sell them were gained a long time ago, at the time of sales), it is illegal to distribute them so long as copyright holders have not released them into the public domain, and 95 years after the games' release have not elapsed. For more in-depth information on this issue, We recommend the following articles and websites:
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