| From: | Mark Wilson |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 08:47:40 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 01:20:05 +0100 (BST) Andy Wanless wrote:
Hi Andy Wanless,
> > Then you should have backed it upm, and in any case as long as you contact
> > Olli Wagner with your details he will re-generate/replace the dead keyfile.
> That's not the point. I'd hope he, or anyone else, would do that, sure. As
> for backups, that's not the point either. How annoying is it to have to
> restore everything from a backup? I just personally wouldn't use any
> software that would do thing like that, under certain circumstances that
> are probably unlikely enough to affect me ;)
Umm?
> > You`re going Way OTT here, I dont for one second believe that any vaporware
> > eats your harddrive,... well maybe V... :)
> Maybe. The obvious thing to do when a program discovers a dodgy keyfile is
> to just shut down quietly. Anything else is just asking for trouble.
Well I just wonder how software authors are supposed to protect themselves
>from these evil parasites that do nothing but drain the Amiga community of
superb coding talent.
Like I said in my Amiga Active Rant, I know many Amiga coders who`ve suffered
at the hands of people like Digital Corruption, a good friend of mine was
quite annoyed to find that his shareware BeOS start bar clone had been cracked
and hacked by DC.
I mean it was only 5 pounds to register it!, Its people who suppport pirarcy
who like I said usally (but not always (send flames to dev/null please)) have
high specced Amiga`s with Graphics cards and fast processers/ppc chips,
They`ve bought the hardware but dont see why they should spend £24 pounds on a
bit of shareware. They think that just because they supported one bit of the
community they dont have to support the other, where this plainly is not on,
or fair.
I feel sorry for my friends who are writing games for the Amiga, Dont you? I
know if I was Bart King, or Chris Page, I`d be thinking long and hard about
supporting such a small and "minor" platform where within 24 hours of your
game being released its being cracked and uploaded to countless damn warez
sites.
Some community we have, eh.
Cheers Kids,
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