Taking something down
If you hold the rights to something on this site and want it gone, it goes, within 48 hours of a request that identifies you and the work. There is no form, no counter-argument and no attempt to talk you out of it.
What to send
Email [email protected] with:
- The page or pages, by URL.
- The work concerned.
- Who you are and how you relate to the rights. A company email address, or a link to a page connecting you to the work, is plenty. Nothing needs to be notarised.
That is the whole process. You will get a reply confirming the removal.
Where this site stands
ExeBrowser hosts four kinds of game, and each game's page says which kind it is and links to a provenance note.
- Our own and open-source games. Either we wrote them, or they are released under an open licence (GPL, BSD, MIT and similar). That licence is linked from the page.
- Freeware. Games whose rights holder released them for free, with a public record of the release.
- Shareware. The freely distributable episode, under the licence file that ships with it. Registered versions are never hosted.
- Abandoned. Games whose publisher no longer exists, or that nobody has sold in any form for decades. They are here on the same footing as the Internet Archive's software collections: preserved because otherwise they disappear. That is a practical position, not a legal claim. Nobody here believes abandonment transfers copyright. These pages carry no advertising.
Anything still sold is never hosted. Before an abandoned game goes up, we check that no store sells it, including GOG, Steam, the EA App, the Ubisoft Store and the rights holder's own shop. The date of that check is in the game's provenance note. If you can buy a game today and you find it running here, that is a mistake. Report it and it will be removed the same day.