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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« on: May 11, 2010, 06:51:09 PM »
Very little, to be honest. I tried a few games and applications that I invariably got from other people. Anything I liked I bought (after all, manuals etc are nice to have), anything I didn't I just formatted over and reused the disks.

I was also quite into PD stuff at the time. One of my local computer shops used to stock Fred Fish and many other good collections of free/shareware.
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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 11:12:29 PM »
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Following your logic, my local pizza shop should sue me for making my own pizza at home?

I don't think that's the right analogy to copying software. The analogy above applies to the example of creating your own software at home, rather than using a copy of software created by somebody else.
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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 11:20:01 PM »
At least these days, free software is sufficiently evolved that you can pretty much do anything you need to without spending a penny on software if for whatever reason you feel aggrieved in doing so. The only real exception to that is gaming, and frankly, I don't really mind paying for that. After all, it's a luxury rather than a necessity.
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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2010, 05:12:22 PM »
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... many people will call you a crimanal

Prrrrpft! An entirely different sort of "bum rap", eh?

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