It's a legit warning. I remember seeing this same exact thing here a few years ago.. someone looking for Star Wars sounds to make a sound pack out of it for Aces High. I believe it was Skuzzy who issued the warning about copyright issues and locked the thread because of it. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened here.
As far as you owning the game.. well if you truly have the game then why are you looking for the sounds from it? Just because you have the right to install the game (and maybe even make a back up copy) doesn't automatically give you the right to use its sound files as you wish especially with another game.
This isn't a debate about the ethics of it all.. I'm just saying you might want to stay on the hush hush about it all. HTC could technically get in trouble if it were discovered that their BBS was being used to distribute sound packs containing copyrighted materials.
Tie Fighters the game is open source, which long as you don't link it to anything named "star wars" then you are fine to use it, or how you use it.
Same thing for Wolfenstein, Doom 1, Quake 1 etc. I used the tie fighter sounds and linked it to the open source material and also I made sure by getting permission (where I was directed to the open source material).
