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Just had an email from a site I sometimes buy old games from - I won't say who for fear of activating the spam filter - informing me of changes to their privacy policy.
Normally this means "we're going to sell your ass to everybody!" so I thought I'd better look.
I was surprised to find the page has two versions, side by side:
LEGALLY BINDING VERSION "ENGLISH" VERSION
1. WHO WE ARE
1.1. We are [REDACTED], a company incorporated in
[REDACTED] with its registered office at [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] is the data controller under European
Union data protection legislation. Hello, we're [REDACTED] and we are based in Europe!
... Dunno why, but it tickled me! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that GOG?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The PP on GOGs site is in a single column format...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not the one I went to: if you look at their support/policies/gog_privacy_policy page it's two column.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This is the one I get from the footer on their front page. Still one column. 
http://www.gog.com/support/policies/privacy_policy[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wonder if they realize they have multiple versions posted on their site...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They do sell Good Old Games, yes - but they seem to be preferring rather rubbish movies at the moment.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: they seem to be preferring rather rubbish movies at the moment.
Not to say that a bunch of those games are found for free on other sites as abandonware. For example the Sierra's Quest for Glory series and many King's Quest...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You can find pirate versions of new games too; and if the sites you're thinking of really were honest abandonware instead of filthy pirates looking for a figleaf, once the GoG versions came out and the games stopped being abandoned they'd take down their version.
GoG doesn't just negotiate for rights to old games; when they're old enough to have compatibility issues on newer OSes they fix them to just work. (At times this means you're playing them via an executable with a VM inside.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And they remove the DRM so you don't have to work from a terrible OCR of poor scan of a bad photocopy of the wrong version of the manual to find the eighth word of the fourteenth line of page thirty two.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And they remove the DRM so you don't have to work from a terrible OCR of poor scan of a bad photocopy of the wrong version of the manual to find the eighth word of the fourteenth line of page thirty two.
Oh, it's ELEPHANT by the way.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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LEGALLY BINDING VERSION "ENGLISH" VERSION
124.2.b. WE LOVE YOU, wherein "LOVE" means irrevocable WE LOVE YOU!
unconditional, non-transferable propagation of ownership,
excluding the restrictions of §§ 14.2.a, 14.2.b and 33.4-
99.6 inclusive, and "YOU" includes but is not limited to
your corporeal, fiscal self as well as your pets.
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I read that including your signature.
Still works. 
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Maybe legalese is the Perl of non-programmers.
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If you want a real laugh heart attack, look closer to home.
Compare what's in your user guides to what your sales brochures promise.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Harper Lee is to publish her second book[^] 55 years after her debut novel. The new book will deal with the first's protagonist, Scout, as an adult and her drinking problems. It is to be called Tequila Mockingbird.
veni bibi saltavi
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***groan*** 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The new book is real, out in the summer, but I may have altered the title.
veni bibi saltavi
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I see what you did there....
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I didn't see what you did there. What does Tequila have to do with a mockingbird? Please explain.
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Explaining the joke would ruin it. But since it's one of Nagy's ...
In English*, "Tequila" is pronounced "təˈkiː.lə", which sounds a bit like "to kill a".
* That's proper English as spoken in England (south of the Watford Gap), not the manglified-bastard-version spoken by 'merkins, nor the bizarre foreign-sounding gibberish spoken by our northern countrymen.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know what he meant. I was kidding around with my reply.
but thanks for the "proper" English lesson. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) Cheers.
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Damn! I thought it was supposed to be the 'merkins who don't understand sarcasm. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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