How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

[Einstein]

Hi Mr Rabbit!

I had enough to not be able to play many for long
That's the idea with demo versions which I could only get with (british) magazines, which themselves cost more than 25 times a single blank floppy, *and* you coudn't randomly pick any game but was limited to whatever the mag shipped with.
Therefore as you can see, pirated games (and a few apps) were effectively demo versions for me.

Fanscale is a time traveling piracy cop! He'll go back to the past and arrest you all using the information you provide here in the future! BEWARE!!!!

When he enters my apartment he will find a cassette player with a cassette inside which he will play. It starts with: "Hello Fanscale, I want to play a game...".

[Einstein]

Fanscale is a time traveling piracy cop! He'll go back to the past and arrest you all using the information you provide here in the future! BEWARE!!!!

When he enters my apartment he will find a cassette player with a cassette inside which he will play. It starts with: "Hello Fanscale, I want to play a game...".

[Einstein]

I don't buy games at a greater rate when I don't pirate versus when I do, though.  The number of games I buy doesn't decrease when I download more of them.  

It's not a lost sale unless you have all of the following:
1) The ability to buy it.
2) The desire to buy it.
3) Then you didn't buy it after getting a pirate copy.  

That's the only way it's a lost sale.  Most of the "piracy == lost sales == platform killer" argument folks neglect the fact that nobody would have bought that crap game had it not been free.  9/10ths of the stuff I had probably wasn't worth the cost of the blank floppy it was on.  The fact was, I was just to lazy to sort, reformat and relabel that floppy, so I just bought more.   :lol:

Precisely.
Later on (until christmas 94 when I sold my A1200) I was also too lazy to juggle with copying, but then I was too "poor" to buy either: needed the money for occasional new cloth, skating accessories (earlier on), gym/martial arts fees etc..

[Einstein]

I gotta admit this is so true.  It goes for software and music downloads.  It's the cool thing to do, but if you could go to the pirates house and pick anything from it to just take, they'd have another thing to say.

Go to a house ? Take things ?! what are you speaking ?

[Einstein]

Interviewer: Hi Ms Bit. How would you describe yourself ?
Bit: I'm a cheap prost{bleep}!
Interviewer: Don't you think about how this affects your parents ?
Bit: I love them, but this is *my* life!

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