Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!mailrus!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!jac423 From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga pirating... Message-ID: <1328@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 19:05:24 GMT Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 19 Lately I've been seeing a lot of writing about copying software on the Amiga, and quite frankly I'm getting worried. I just recently sold my Atari ST, and one of the major reasons was because of the amount of pirating that is done on that computer. I'm part of a developers group and we recently switched to programming for the Amiga. Is the pirating problem bad on the Amy? I've seen the ST fizzle slowly as the pirate BBS's added HD's. Has this recent trend snuck into the Amiga community? One that seemed more serious than that? If you know a little about the ST market you wouldn't wonder twice why FTL and other software companies are heavily copy protecting their software. Remember that FTL is coming from the ST market; why should they think things would be different with the Amy users. -- What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek nuclear fusion? I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@rachel.albany.edu