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Offline Vincent

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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« on: December 15, 2005, 01:31:16 PM »
Let's start a petition to make sure it comes back :-)

tBBoAHW is a fantastic resource that shouldn't be lost over driver issues.

If there's a complaint about the driver(s) the simple solution would be to stop making them avaliable.  Which would possibly take sometime to remove the files and links etc.
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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2005, 04:13:55 PM »
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What the... since WHEN are drivers illegal to download? Since WHEN is providing drivers to download a Copyright Infringment?

If you have to pay for drivers, or the drivers are actually made by someone either for non-profit (just paying for the resource) or profit.

Generally - if the person who wrote the drivers didn't put it in the public domain then it's illegal to make said drivers avaliable unless you've got an agreement with the author.

It's a bit crap, but if the drivers are not meant to be in the public domain then there's nothing really we can do about those drivers.
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