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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« on: December 16, 2005, 10:29:38 AM »
Excellent points.  People need to read that^ again and again.
Unless this driver is currently under development, or at least is still being advertised and supported then the author has no moral ground with which to {bleep} about things.
 

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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2005, 10:31:22 AM »
>web.archive's backup sucks anyway... It's last snapshot is from 2004...

How does one get archive.org to archive a site anyway?  2004 is way too old.  Google *might* have some things cached but then you'd have to know what was missing from archive.org (which is flawed and incomplete at best) and try to patch them together.  As the years pass, somebody needs to start putting these sites on CD for the day when the corporations and their government stooges turn the screws on the internet.

We need to get archive.org to archive http://amiga.resource.cx completely, while there's still time.


DiscreetFX may want to quickly hit archive.org and copy what files are there.


>The site has been taken down because I received a copyright violation notice
>from the author of a driver. Perhaps it was foolish of me to offer such things for download.

1) We need to find out who the asshole complainant is.
2) We need to get the site put up on another host, sans that driver.


Personally I think that driver should now be pirated widely as a punative measure against the complainant, unless the complainant didn't intend for the whole site to be taken down.  Don't give me any crap about piracy either.  If people need the drivers, they obviously have the hardware. Hasty my ass.

  Furthermore if the driver is at all of any further commercial interest, I suggest we set up a Reward (as seen with AROS and linux efforts) for the coding of another driver that will do the same thing.  Then we release it to the public domain.  This way the support will be there, and it will send a message to any anal-retentive types out there who might blindside any other Amiga do-gooders like Ian.

 

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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2005, 07:43:15 PM »
I don't give a damn.  Somebody has to hang.
 

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Re: "http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2005, 09:07:57 AM »

Why the bleep is Ian worried about the asshole complainant getting flamed?  The world has a right to know who is se damned petty as to do something like this.  Why should Ian want to protect him?  Is Ian this spineless, or is there something else going on here?


Do you think it has to do with TCP/IP or SCSI stuff?


Has anybody contacted whomever runs the other site to see why it's down?