| From: | Adam Bell |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 12:05:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
--- In amigactive@egroups.com, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@c...> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:45:00AM +0100, adambell@c... wrote:
>
> > 10 days? Perfect; just enough time to take it home, copy it, scan
the
> > manuals and get a nice gold version.
>
> Well, yes. It's not going to prevent piracy, but it does remove one
of the
> reasons often used to legitimise piracy (games may be crap, so I
copy them
> all and then buy the good ones).
Agreed, but I've never understood why anyone would even want a copy
of a crap game. Thing is, it is the same with video rentals which
also rents games. Rent it for 3quid for a week, copy and take it
back. The video rental shop is less likely to think something dodgy
is going on than with someone like EB.
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