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Offline arnljot

Re: Copies of Amiga games/apps sold as original!
« on: May 22, 2009, 03:47:32 PM »
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34300&highlight=pirated+ebay

As you see I´ve had a run in with them myself.

I think there was a CD version of Scala. The local tv station where I lived used amiga, and they had it I think.

My story ended happily as the seller shipped me an original in the end.
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Offline arnljot

Re: Copies of Amiga games/apps sold as original!
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 02:50:54 PM »
I prefere the Elvis 501 jeans over the Levis 501 :-P

Blah, seriously. It´s not if the lisence holders care. But if you´re destroying someones business. Like AmigaKit in this case who is selling Scala MM400.

There is still NOS out there of many titles, and people have invested in buying that NOS and selling it to us as a service, rather than seeing stockists just dump it in s skip which has happened in many cases. These people who is selling the NOS have storage costs and all other kind of normal costs in relations to running a business. These are the ones you are hurting.

Like the reprod run of CompPro joystick, and many other products out of Jens´shop are funded by these businesses. If they have no insentive for providing NOS of old products, we´ll see a much poorer amiga market than it is.

Now, I´m no angel. And I get my amiga software from "other sources". But only after having made sure that the software I´m after isn´t available at an amiga dealer or ebay (legal). And once in a while I do make an effort to see if they have gotten it in.

Thats why the people who sell pirated copies on ebay are the lowest scum in the amiga community. And we have to draw a line at least there.
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