Pirated Amiga software on ebay

[Amiga_Nut]

I reported a guy in the UK for selling an identical DVD, but actually thinking about this...I hope you report Claonto as well for all the unlicensed games included on the Amiga Forever DVD for the rip-off price of £30

It's also worth noting that this entire 9 DVD set can be squeezed down to about 2 DVDs as well, I should know I've got it. And anyway the CD32 ISOs are pretty crap and not worth the extra 3 DVDs IMO.

edit: and ebay did actually remove the Amiga DVD auction.

[Amiga_Nut]

Fishy fiz.. your dedication is admirable but when the IP holders don't bother protecting their own IP I wouldn't waste your time doing it for them. When the legal pros don't bother to do their job it's becuase they see no $$$ in the game.

So in effect your dedication (perfectly admirable and honorable) simply puts cash in the pockets of IP holders too lazy or incompitent to do it themselves.

It's like feeding prime rib to lazy sharks
in this analogy prime rib= your valuable free time.

That being said EBAY should step up and should be liable for allowing this to be sold. Then

Will the said IP holder take on ebay? In the end it's not about if you're wrong or right but who has the most cash for a legal battle. There's just not enough cash being traded here to show up on any legal teams radar. At best it would be a side project for a legal intern... but even these days interns are "free legal slave labor" their time is better spent on paying clients. A lawyer told me that... so that gives you some insight to mindset of the players inlvolved in this game.

ebay is a one way communication machine due to their monopolistic hold of the online auction business. If they mark it as illegal at trust and safety you have 2 choices.......

1. Don't ever relist
2. Relist and get banned

Trust and safety do not enter into discussion even if they are legally in the wrong FACT.

As for the seller, that 19gb's of ADFs in the TOSEC 7zip down to 3.5gb and that leaves 2.5 CDs for CD32.....and DVD-Rs cost 15p so he makes $28 per set in profit.......bit of a scam really......be my guest

[Amiga_Nut]

I 'pirate' stuff all the time because the companies don't preserve these games to stop them being lost forever, so screw them.

That DVD contains Kickstart and Workbench files so he is selling Cloanto's stuff in a way......not that I give a crap. Cloanpoo didn't write a single line of UAE code so they can drop dead with their unlicensed games on DVD for 30 Euros too.

My issue is with cost and lack of intelligence of these sellers selling 9 DVDs, for a start the whole lot fits on 5 DVDs max, and not many people want all CD32 ISOs, so the whole thing can be shrunk down to 1 DVD with 23,000 ADFs and CD32 games worth having

Which btw you can get for 7.99 direct from a genius on the internet already.