redrumloa wrote:
I cannot believe anyone would condone piracy for money at the expense of legitimate software houses like Cloanto :pissed:
I don't think
anyone buys Amiga Forever because of the licensed ROMs. People pay for the nice out of the box package Cloanto has created. I don't think that any pirated software will hurt cloantos sales by 0.01 $ (unless it is AmigaForever itself of course).
Most of those "compillations" do not contain any still sold software, but only old stuff from companys that have left the Amiga marked years ago or do not even exist anymore
The guys selling those CDs/DVDs do not make money on the stolen IP but on the laziness of the people that buy it, as it has been stated here already that everything could be found on bittorrent or elsewere on the net as well. I know that this does not make it more legal.
When someone throws his old PCs in the dump and someone else takes it up and sells it on for a profit most will call him a clever / lucky guy.....
Note that this is quite a similar scenario as taking something from the citydump is stealing as well, as the waste is property of the city (no I'm not making this up) but there will hardly be someone complaining.
I take it for granted that you have a fully licensed version of Windows, Office and Photoshop.......
