Is Eyetech pirating the A1200 Magic Pack software?

[Alkemyst]

@mikeymike

I agree with most of your points.

Running an Os through emu is ok as the Os does not have to be illegaly hacked for it to run thus the OS can be bought in most cases with the coder getting paied, where as illegal hacked version can not.

If someone hacked version of X-
Box HALO for PS2, the chances of PS2 users going out to buy the X-BOX version to stay legal is nil with the HALO coders loseing out.

I can see at times why ppl want the protections removed as it can be a real pain having to type things in everytime you want to use it with amiga games but that rare to have to do that more than once now with more recent software.
The MicroSoft protection is just not on because its intrusive.

There is no excuse to remove non intrusive passive protection tho to get it to run on hardware it was not intened as you then open the software up to piracy.

The Software that a platform has is its leverage over the others and is used to entice you over to that plat form if more of what you want is available for that platform wich non of us have the legal right to break by hacking.



 

[Alkemyst]

Not that i would condone such activity, but how would they lose out, if it aint available to ps2 owners "ie made for ps2" they would make no sale to ps2 customers, so how would they lose out?

Eaxmple: Hey i think i will get an X-Box because i can buy for HALO for it. The friend says dont bother get a PS2 as there is hacked version on the net for it= lost sale of HALO and X-BOX.

I bought my A1200 secondhand near new it came with 80 priated games & only 4 boxed games. the guy already had a pc when i bought it.
Its clear to me that he got the A1200 because of easy piracy.

BTW all pirated disk had been thrown away long ago.

[Alkemyst]

Hmm, not sure on this one.
If you cracked software to run on hardware it wasn't meant to run on, say OS4 for example, and then made it freely available on the net, that would be wrong IMO. If you just cracked it for your own purposes, or someone else cracked it for you, but you had bought a copy of OS4 already, that would be ok. Just. That someone else is probably doing something wrong as it is unlikely they know for sure that you own a copy of OS4 legally.

I agree but the chances of a cracked version of an OS staying in the hands of the legal owner is highly unlikely. Its just needs one person to make the cracked version available to the net then its all over.

Hmm, agree with you very slightly, ish. However, the platform's advantages should be enough to entice you to buy it as well.

Don't you see that you're drawing a very fine line between OS emulation and what you were just saying? Legal and illegal must be plain and simple, not a difficult to draw line.

The platform is the lesser priorty for the avgjoe [we are not the avg joe] as its the software that shows off the ability of the platform.
The the first i had seen of the amiga was on the way home from school the juggler demo knocked my socks off, wow i had to get the Hardware that could do that, AMIGA, nothing else in the shop showed anything like that, i knew nothing of the hardware at the time,even if there was better hardware in the shop at the time i new nothing of them when none was doing what the AMIGA was.

I have no problem with emulation as far as software goes as that makes no difference to piracy as to others useing the real hardware to a point tho because most [not all] emu ppl are not dedicated to the platform they are emulating and may be more enclined to use copied OS & software. but both can buy the legal version of the OS or SW.
But it is a loss to hardware sales if the software is exclusive to a platform & if that title is a killer leverage apps for the platform.