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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: slestebe on August 27, 2004, 01:10:56 PM

Title: Kickstart rom
Post by: slestebe on August 27, 2004, 01:10:56 PM

Is it legal to buy these files on ebay?
I spent a lot of money on Cloantos Amiga Forever pack, because I thought that was the only way to purchase these files.
But to day I found this on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=182&item=3696402352&rd=1

Then again I think I supported the Amiga community when I purchased from Cloanto.   :-)

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: Linchpin on August 27, 2004, 01:14:49 PM

Unless he sells you the actual rom chips - then no its illigal.

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: vpcs on August 27, 2004, 01:15:19 PM

No this is not legal. The rights to the roms are not public domain...

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: Orjan on August 27, 2004, 01:16:38 PM

"The roms will be e-mailed to you upon receipt of payment by Paypal."

Doesn´t seem to be very legal... :)

I don´t know how e-bay works, but can you report something like this?

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: slestebe on August 27, 2004, 01:21:37 PM

I sent a email to the seller asking if it was legal to sell it. but he never answered.
Someone should report this.

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: redrumloa on August 27, 2004, 02:14:03 PM

Clearly piracy and will do nothing but hurt legitimate sales. I have reported it to eBay and Cloanto. :pissed:

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: Orjan on August 27, 2004, 03:04:58 PM

Why have you reported it to Cloanto? Do they own the kickstarts? I thought Kmos owned all that now...

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: bloodline on August 27, 2004, 03:10:30 PM

Cloanto have balls... KMOS have... err ...a silly name :-)

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: orange on August 27, 2004, 03:56:15 PM

Clearly monopolism and will do nothing but hurt promotion of Amiga. I have reported it to hackers worldwide to bring down Cloantos website. :-D

Title: Re: Kickstart rom
Post by: Holley on August 27, 2004, 06:14:08 PM

I reported that auction to ebay within a couple of hours of it's listing (it's so easy to do that, you only need to follow about 2 dozen links, lol).

Would be surprised if they got off their fat backsides and did anything about it though, unless Cloanto send 'em a threatening letter ...

Cloanto don't have a monopily (they only have the water works and park square), it's just that nobody else has licensed Kickstart and Workbench.