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Hattig wrote:
It doesn't look illegal to me.
The demos were public domain.
It seems a couple of people can't realise this fact.
When I bought PD disks back in the 90s the fees were higher than disk+postage - they covered the time and effort in running the PD library. In this case £4 seems to be a reasonable price for the effort involved, seeing as around 20 people will probably buy it in the end.
It isn't piracy - this type of behaviour is exactly what the scene encouraged back in the day.
I doubt we'll ever see an apology though. I left AW.net to get away from this type of crass "i'm right, despite the facts" behaviour.
I am not convinced this is piracy or not. As one poster stated (one that actually has the talent to make demo's) "Demo's are NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN" unless the author has released it into the PD. Free to copy is not the same as PD.
So, if the demos were not released as PD and they were used without permission, as far as I am concerned (and it appears that many here agree with this opinion) the DVD's are pirated material. Nobody is getting an apology if its pirated.
My 2 cents, so you can flame on me now.
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