Commodore Scotland Under Threat...

[Colin_Camper]

As usual JJ you are wrong I legally purchased the domain name CommodoreScotland.com and there is nothing you can or anyone else can do about it...simples...

(PS: how do I loois and what do I loois...

Well, obviously the issue isn't the domain. Many sites have the word 'Amiga' in them and are happily linked from here.

However, I have been here a fair while, and Amiga.org (and AWN etc) have always clamped down on linking to sites that allow downloading of S/W that is not GPLd or proven to be free. KS ROMs and workbench were always a total no no.

It's been a fair while since I noticed any of these threads so it is easy to see how Franko missed this. I must admit, I heard of C-Scotland for a while but I never went there - I was pretty slack jawed when I did visit and saw the links on the front page!

I can't see the point really because;
1:) People can use their own ROMs off a real Amiga
2:)Use Cloantos ROMs
3:)If poor or desperate, Google down a few pages and finf them that way.

A-org never facilitated this process and I guess they never will - I suspect you got away lightly given that this is 2011 not 2003.

All IMHO of course!

[Colin_Camper]

Your perfectly entitled to your opinion...

But I do find it a wee bit odd that you were "pretty slack jawed" about my site when you then go on here to explain to folk that they can just google for them anyway... seem like advocating "Piracy" to me, just like I have been accused of...

Well, like I said, most of these old threads would start with 'Where do I get to download KS, etc', then run with folk baying for the people who posted links and the OP to get banned. Invariably the thread would end with some old lag saying 'Why didn't they just drill down through a dozen google pages and leave A.org out of it. I figured this was common knowledge. When I saw the site I figured that either A.org policy would change or you would get a slagging off - that's why I was slack jawed!

I don't have an opinion either way about the actual ethics of the content of the site other than it looked like a lot of work went into it. I don't believe anyone these days deserves to 'own' the IP for that stuff.

[Colin_Camper]

For all intents and purposes a.inc has been dead for years, and only in a zombie-like vegetative state before that...

That's exactly what John Hurt thought about the Alien egg.....