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- From: Allan Girvan <allan@girvan.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: DOOM with Breathless engine?
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 01:09:22 GMT
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- On Wed, 31 Jan 96, Alan L.M. Buxey wrote:
-
- > Philipp Boerker posted the following:
- >
- > : Then you should check some so called friends of yours:
- > : A buggy version of AB3D was offered to me even before it was released!
- > : And it had to make the way from Britain to Germany BTW.
- >
- > i agree! all these coding houses complain about piracy....so, just HOW
- > do copies of games get to the hackers/crackers during deelopment? eh?
- >
- > its people _IN_ the s/w houses doing themseleves damage.
-
- So if I write a piece of software and pass it to a few selected
- beta-testers and it subsequently gets copied to countless bulletin boards
- then *I* am ultimately responsible for the piracy?
-
- What about the pre-release versions of games that are passed to magazines
- for review? If the folks on the mag make copies for their kids to see how
- playable a game is and then the kids copy it to their mates at school and
- the mates at school copy it...
-
- Or maybe a beta-tester decides that he/she knows someone who could help
- evaluate a copy of the latest program, and that person decides to copy it
- to a few friends...
-
- Et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam.
-
- In Glasgow we have an infamous source of pirated software (MSDOS 6 was
- released in Glasgow before Microsoft had officialy announced it!) but, as
- the prosecutions revealed, the games had been cracked by pirates (who
- boasted about the fact in the bootblocks) and most serious stuff was a beta
- version which had been issued to a "responsible" developer and subsequently
- pirated.
-
- I think it's grossly unfair to blame software houses for piracy!
-
- We call them idiots if they don't go through a proper testing routine but
- we call them idiots if they do!
-
- Sometimes you just can't win!
-
- Cheers,
-
-
- Allan.
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