| From: | Mike O'Hara |
| Date: | 28 Mar 2001 at 16:56:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Pirate Sites (Was T - 11 Days.) |
Hi Neil, on 28-Mar-01 14:18:33 you wrote:
>> 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.
>The difference between asking to borrow your car and stealing but
>returning it if you complain.
Car analogies never work. Somebody can download a piece of software, and the
original still exists. That's not true if somebody borrow's my car. If somebody
made an exact copy of my car... I wouldn't mind. ;)
>It's the copyright holder that has the rights, until they give them to the
>site, they have no right to supply the software.
I think that's too black and white for stuff that is classed as 'abandonware'.
>> If people don't ask for their stuff to be removed from a site, maybe they
>> aren't too bothered about it after all?
>Or maybe they don't know it's there.
Sure. But if they had any interest in it, it wouldn't be hard to find it...
Carpe Diem,
Mike 'Navvie' O'Hara
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