| From: | Mike O'Hara |
| Date: | 28 Mar 2001 at 14:24:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Pirate Sites (Was T - 11 Days.) |
Hi Ray, on 27-Mar-01 11:48:56 you wrote:
>> Although if nobody downloaded anything, I doubt either the napster user,
>> or back2roots would bother offering anything.
> Isn't back2roots a legal site? There was an article in AmigaActive
>about them.
Yep, its legal, apparently. :) so ie Amiga Legal Emulation, AmiSector One... and
a couple of others, then of course there are illegal ones...
>They go to a great deal of trouble to get permission to use the softwatre
>they have on their site, and I think we should support them in the effort
>to keep the Amiga software alive.
Agreed, I downloaded every game on back2roots, 600meg at the time took about a
week to download the lost, luckily i was with redhotant at the time, and clicked
on a few banners for them.
But should we support them exclusively because they do it legally? If they have
Alien Breed 3D 2 on their site for legal download, and its still available to
buy from eg. Forematt Home Computing (I don't know if it is). Does that make it
ok to download it? Even if it is legal to do so, somebody is loosing out.
What is the different between back2roots, and say Ninja's AGA World (now shut
down...)? back2roots don't upload a game until they get permission, Ninja
removed any game from his site that a company asked him too.
If people don't ask for their stuff to be removed from a site, maybe they aren't
too bothered about it after all?
Carpe Diem,
Mike 'Navvie' O'Hara
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