Ya suppose this might be illegal?

[anakirob]

I have actually looked into the possibility (every amiga game on DVD)....

....The amiga roms are copyright, you would need permission from amiga.com (gateway).
Most (if not all) amiga emulators are PD, but licence agreements may say you must do some stuff like pay the authors or send them your dvd.
Some commercial amiga games have been officially declaired PD or 'abandonware' (or the copyright holder went bust, and now nobody owns it), but most are still protected by copyright.
You could probably buy the licence of an entire software-house back catalogue for a very cheap price as nobody else was going to pay for the individual games anyway.

Hope this helps

Edited by Admin: Soliciting Piracy

[anakirob]

First: An apology to www.amiga.org moderators, sorry, I used a bad choice of words @ the end of my post (won't happen again).

Second: In many countries you are allowed to obtain a copy of software which you already own (i.e. the original disk died so you made another copy from somewhere). I imagine if a DVD came with the [color=FF0000]original[/color] software, copy-protect routines and all, much amiga software (esp. games) would be unusable without having bought the original product at some point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating anything, just making a point.

[anakirob]

>> ...or the copyright holder went bust, and now nobody owns it...
>Somebody still owns it until the copyright expires. Just because the company is no longer in business doesn't mean the copyright disappeared. If the company closed without debt but the person(s) involved just lost interest, he/she/they can still hold the copyright. A company folding to debt, one of the creditors may have it in a filing cabinet somewhere, or might have sold it to someone else who now sits on it to help recover part of said debt.

what if the copyright-holder died and left no will? what then?

Besides, who buys/sells old ripped games when you could always (I won't make that mistake twice.AR)?

heh. :lol:

BTW. Would amiga.com sell the licence to say WB1.3? I think they would, but then I don't know.

[anakirob]

Not in thailand either.

I heard that sometimes the US drops bombs on south america and south east asia just to shut down big time pirates.

But that talk really belongs in the politics forum.

P.S. check feedback forum for an interesting piece of trivia on piracy