How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

[Marcb]

Although I chose 1-5, I had many more in the "eLiT3" area of my BBS.
( if anyone tells you their BBS didn't have an exclusive area don't believe them!, Every Sysop I knew had one)
 
The copies I did have were the ones I rarely played, not sure if I didn't play them because they were crap or because they were copies...
 
For me, I always ended up buying the commercial version of whatever it was I used (SAS/C, FinalWriter,DPaint, Photon Paint etc. ) I didn't like not having manuals & boxes for my software but I tend to be a little anal about these things.
 
Reflecting on it, I am sorry that I did have any cracked software on my BBS, perhaps vendors and publishers would have supported the Amiga longer if copied software hadn't been so readily available.

[Marcb]

I think we all need to accept that piracy existed within the Amiga community as evidenced by the poll results.
 
If we are going to argue about whether it was wrong or not, the morality of software piracy is a no-brainer, stealing is stealing, the mitigating circumstances are our respective ages and level of immaturity when we did it anything else is just an excuse.

[Marcb]

@Amiganut

The problem is that when one sets out to hurt MS by pirating their software, MS passes the loss on down the line by reducing its costs to retain a profit margin, so rather than waking up to their corporate and community responsibilities they just have a round of redundancies and its Johnny programmer that gets it in the neck. That's how corporations work.

(I applaud your passion though)