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^4 Sandra's rather busy this month packing up all your orders ready for
^4Christmas, so we thought we'd carry on the theme of `Sandra's
^4Soapbox' from Déjà Vu's Spotlight Issue 4.
^5 This is what Sandra had to say.......
^6 One of the reasons for so-called hackers pirating games is the high
^6price of commercial software. Another reason is the challenge of
^6breaking into a well protected game.
^6 Imagine my disgust on finding out that the DEJA VU Licensed Software
^6is appearing on bulletin boards and is doing the rounds of the pirate
^6circuits.
^6 We are providing good quality software at a reasonable price. We
^6don't protect the software in any way to make it easy for our
^6customers to make back-up copies. We trust our customers not to pass
^6copies on to friends.
^6 Only complete lamers would pirate licenseware. They are even
^6putting their own loading screens on the front. What an incredibly
^6pathetic achievement it is!!!!
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^2 We agree!
^7 Piracy started out to tell the software houses that they were
^7charging too much for their games, it was thought that by spreading
^7these `cracked' copies, the price of software would be forced down to
^7a reasonable level. Up to a point this has happened with the
^7introduction of budget ranges by many companies. So these cheaper
^7titles may not be the latest chart toppers, but a good game doesn't
^7age and will not seem out of date a year or more after it first
^7appeared on the shelves. Adventures are the best example of this.
^7 After this it became the aim for these cracking crews to put their
^7own intro's on the disk. The challenge then became to be the first
^7to spread a game/program, the more expensive the program, the more
^7prestige was gained.
^7 So why spread a disk that costs a mere £3.50p in the first place?
^7What's the challenge in `cracking' a disk that has no protection?
^7Kids do that. This sort of piracy is done by the people who the
^7crews call `lamers', ie people who contact them for copies of games
^7without being able to crack games themselves. Who's the lamer now?
^7The loading screens that have been spotted so far are not by kids,
^7they are names well known for cracking games.
^2 If you see ANY unofficial copies of Déjà Vu Licensed Software,
^2please contact Sandra so that somthing can be done about it. If you
^2see anything on a Bulletin Board, please let her know which one.
^2Alternatively, let us know and we'll pass the message on.
^6 It would be a great shame if the idea of Licenseware died. Sandra
^6has created somewhere where programmers have a chance to earn
^6royalties on programs that Software houses would not have thought
^6financially viable. Also, many people have come to rely on
^6Licenseware as a source of reasonably priced Software, this is
^6something that is desperately needed when money is tight and there's
^6a hungry Amiga to feed.
^4 Believe it or not, you can earn more per copy on Licenseware than
^4from many commercially released games!
^3 So SPREAD THE NAME.....NOT THE DISK!!!!
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^2D E J A V U ' S ^3T O P T E N ^2B E S T S E L L E R S .
^5N O V E M B E R 1 9 9 1 .
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^2History has been made this month with the Amos Updater disk being
^2knocked off its top spot for the first time!
^1[2Congratulations to ^3CRUXSOFT's Dirty Cash,^2 a worthy number One