Re: Team Amiga Reaction to the Bernithlon Situation

[Desolator]

"By the way, does anyone know how much piracy there is in the amiga world???"

I'd say almost none, except when it comes to old games, but we could all discuss ad infinitum if geting a game that is not possible to get anywhere anymore is piracy...

But if there still exist software piracy in the Amiga world today.. why?  Almost everything is kickass cheap when it comes to software.

[Desolator]

"Where did you get that imformation?"

I made an assumption, not a statement.

"I'm talking brand new apps, at time of released."

Such as?

Do YOU use pirated software then? It sure sounds like you know where to get it from.  :-P

[Desolator]

"that's 1200 downloads more than copies of Amithlon sold."

Yikes! Who'd figure that an Amiga emulator would be so sought after... nowadays all we hear is "Amiga is dead" and still hundreds of people gets amithlon... weird. *and finds himself hating software piracy even more now*

[Desolator]

Because I see a vastly difference between Games and Applications. With Amithlon, you can't play the old games, unless you booted up UAE inside Amithlon. So WinUAE is the one to use when playing games. But with Amithlon...well, that's being used for resourcedemanding programs and development as I see it, not to play games. (simply said, WinUAE does the job better when it comes to games.)

So that's why I am suprised.  .rom and .adf files containing games is not that serious software piracy in my eyes (and just like you I'm not justifying piracy) when it is games that you can not get hold of legally in any way.  But pirating commercial software like Amithlon, StormC, Art Effect, Amiga Writer.. that kind of software, then it's true piracy.

Guess I thought the Amiga User Community to be more honest than it really is.  :-(