It really depends on the details, physical copies with drm can be given away and sold and would not be piracy. This is not automatically illegal just because it is a drm copy game being given away, although it is likely either a very grey area type of deal, or technically not possible due to the way it has been purchased.

Oh boy. Please listen to what <span class="bold">Wishbone</span> had to say above.

This is not a physical copy, but a digital one. However he got it, what he's offering is a dropbox link or similar to the DRM-free installer that he himself uploaded. No matter the details, this still means that afterwards, two people will have the game rather than one. It is also not the first time he has done a "giveaway" like this.

I'm not giving the game to all the world, I'll give it just to the winner.

Also, I actually don't play the game, so try to think I'm giving a physical copy: I give the copy, and I "lost" mine.

I'm not trying to affect negatively to any developer. If I'm doing that, I apologize.

Greetings

I didn't know it was not the first time. You can sell digital copies of games (and software) legally in a few different ways - but if this is all he is doing then that is not good.

Here's an earlier one: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_do_you_want_to_use_some_animal_masks/post1

Put yourself in the shoes of the developers. They release the game DRM-free, then see copies - they have seen no compensation for - spread around openly on the forums of a site that offers licensed DRM-free titles. Not really an incentive for them to consider going without DRM again in the future I'd say.

I'm thinking in what you're saying.

I'll considerer if I'll make the giveaway or not.

Greetings

Just drop the idea. For now we all assume you mean good and it's a misunderstanding. If you go on with this, you can have this topic locked by the Blues and\or your rep will suffer even more.
Here's how you make giveaways:
1. The way I like to do it:
Buy a gift code for a game you like and want to share with this fine community. Make a fun contest (ask people to post something - I once asked people to post something creepy - or draw something or solve a riddle or write something anything <I used to make mini-adventure games... but triock always cracked them in minutes>). Pick the winner in a way you find suitable (quality of their work, random draw, 'first come, first served' for riddle giveaways).
2. Another good way:
Buy a gift code for a game you like and want to share with this fine community. Post a giveaway topic and let people enter. Make a random draw to pick the winner.
3. Some people have their keys from bundles. Some bundles and their fans don't like people spliting the bundles. Just to be safe, check terms of service of the bundle you want to give the keys away. Or check with amok, he seems to know everything about it :)
4. If you're not an authorized publisher \ retailer for the game you want to give away, for God's sake, DON'T send people links to your hosting account where you put the installer and NEVER, EVER share copies of your own games! If the service you get the game from doesn't have any way of making gifts, DON'T give away games purchased there. If there is a gifting mechanism - use it and nothing else.

tl;dr - the best way is buy the keys.

Oh, I'm really sorry. Please, close or delete this post.

Thanks

I actually can't buy him a key, so please, close or delete the post.

I apologize for the inconvenients.

Greetings

This.

Not cool milito3515, you should have known better :-/