I'm not entirely sure what that means. Origin as a publishing brand and development team still exists - which is the same sense in which they've existed for the last fifteen years (for every publication from WC2 Deluxe forward).
(Well, okay, I was lying - I know exactly what you mean. Origin is developing Ultima Whatever in Redwood City rather than Austin. Certainly a bigger move than from Wild Basin to West Courtyard Drive (also EA funded - didn't notice anyone complaining)... but it's utterly insignificant when it comes to Wing Commander. Heck, it might even be better for us - Chris Roberts is in California now, too.)
EA is not making a profit out of SO and thus probably won't take legal action over it.
EA *never* made a profit from SO - as you are so fond of repeating, as though it made any difference with regards to copyright, SO was given away for free. This didn't stop them from releasing it under a license, and it doesn't affect the fact that its their intellectual property. "probably won't" doesn't count when it wouldn't be your ass on the line paying for legal costs.
About the worst that will happen by posting the episodes is Mike McCoy driving by your house and throwing cans at it.
I don't think Boomer is with Origin anymore (well, I know he's not). We work with the UO Live team on the rare occasion that we decide we have to okay posting material. We do enjoy a good relationship with people from Origin (and the various WC-affiliated companies - Digital Anvil, Raylight, EA, Ascendant, etc). I see no reason to risk that (plus our hosting and large amounts of money) in order to help people who are either too stupid or too lazy to plug 'Secret Ops' into a search engine.
Not to mention the fact that they were free to begin with.
And loaf, it does nothing for your site to make one post about having a whole book online then file it away with dozens of other mundane articles, I don't think anyone goes looking for a whole online book on a site that promises nothing like it.
Oh, well, you have my sincere apologies. I guess it just didn't dawn on me that people wouldn't think to look at the *news* at an *news* site. If only we provided some way to search the news... or some kind of forum to help people locate such things. Ah, well. (Note, sarcasm. Because someone dumb enough to believe that "but I didn't see it!" is a legitimate reason to claim that something isn't there is probably too dumb to understand tone.)
And you won't get badgered over the Academy episodes because they probably made less money than Secret Ops did, the reason why there are only 13.
Thirteen is the standard production order for an animated series' first season. Academy was actually the highest rated of USA's Saturday morning programming (beating out two shows that had started the year before and had been renewed - Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat). Why wasn't there a second season? 1997 was the year USA 'retooled' their image - *all* of their running shows were dropped (and they stopped doing childrens programming alltogether).
(Not that the success or failure of a TV show has anything to do with the legality of stealing it, mind you.)