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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:10 Aug 2000 at 13:31:06
Subject:Re: Amiga Piracy

adambell said,

> I'm just interested in knowing about the piracy that is occuring on the
> Miggy ATM. A short while ago, I assumed that piracy of Amiga software
> died at the same time the general public thought the Amiga had died.

No, it just became of interest to less people.

> I think I've read of Dopus, OS3.5, Wipeout and some clickboom games being
> pirated. Does anyone know where this is going on?

I saw a site recently with Opus, OS 3.5, ImageFx and many other
commercial programs. It's been dealt with. Wipeout was avaiolable fro
Scumbags'R'Us about a month before it went on sale.

> It is really easy to
> find pirated PC software on the net but I've never come across modern
> Amiga software and Mac software on the net

There's a lot more PC software to pirate, and a lot more users to pirate
it.

Neil



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