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Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:33:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 01:33:31 1987
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In article <1234@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>
>I'm interested in hearing how some of the software developers feel
>after seeing this.  Some of the software on that list comes from
>people here on the net -- Infinity Software, Felsina Software, and
>ASDG, to name a few.  I have a few points I'd like to make:
>
 Well to be honest I was somewhat shocked by the list, but I kind of
expected it.  I have lots of friends who just "like" to pirate software.
They don't do it to rip off people, they just feel that they have
completed something.  I have the same tendancy.  I will go the the
newstand and see the new issue of Byte, not finding anything good in
the issue I will still buy it.  I just want to have ALL of the issues.
I think this is the same thing with pirates.  Kind of like baseball
cards.  So Galileo is out there for free, I don't know that alot of
people who get it from there :'( would have gone out and bought our
program anyway.  We didn't loose much money and there is the
possibility that someone will hear about our program that wouldn't
have otherwise.  Of course, Mike (powered by M & M's) Smithwick is
also on this net, he wrote the program, I don't know how he feels...

What I really feel is a shame is that FACC is there already.  I have
seen it in too many homes already of people who didn't purchase it.  I
have been really happy with it (I have four disk drives on my 2000).
What really struck most strongly was on the back of the FACC disk box
it says "This disk is not copy protected.  ASDG has served the Amiga
community well (remember the ASDG Recoverable Ram Disk); please don't
pirate our software." Boy that line was better than any copy
protection.  I just kept remembering that stupid $10 that I ment to
send in for that RRD that I never ended up doing.  Boy, I haven't even
let people SEE my FACC disk, let alone copy it.

I sure wish that Infinity could afford to ship programs with NO
protection, at least our new DeskTop Publishing program isn't protected.

>3) Too bad we don't all have Digi-Views...I'd like to see what some of
>the faces behind the message headers look like.
>
What happened?  I recently did a "Bay Area" posting of the photo that
Arthur Abrahams took of the BADGE meeting with the ALive and I have
only gotten one reply.  I want mail from everyone who got my posting
or I am going to post it to the entire state! 

>Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
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