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Re: Pirated Amiga software on ebay
« on: September 06, 2010, 11:55:05 AM »
Hi fishy_fiz, while I agree with your sentiments on piracy, the trouble is neither ebay or any of the companies you mention actually care about old Amiga software.

Simple reason the publishers don't care is they no longer make money from them, although I think they still can if they could be bothered to release some of their old back catalogue as budget releases or on a compilation cd. There not much chance of that though, not enough profit in it for them I reckon.

As for ebay, I've found here in the UK the quickest response you'll get from them when reporting pirated/dodgy/faulty goods is to threaten them with Trading Standards, they soon remove the offending items then.

The thing is and although most won't publicly admit it, these days things like that on ebay or from the numerous dodgy sites on the net, is for most folk the only way they can get hold of this old software.

Guess it's down to the morals of the individual as to just how strongly they agree or disagree with the use of such software.

Wish you luck in your quest, but to be honest I don't think you'll find the response your looking for if any, from ebay or any of those companies... :)

PS:I'd be willing to bet you've just created a few extra sales for that item, by simply posting the link here...
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Re: Pirated Amiga software on ebay
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2010, 03:50:54 PM »
Being an avid collector of SNES R.P.G. Games, I pay on average around the £50  mark on ebay to buy the originals. I have even paid £110 for a factory sealed original of Chrono Trigger on ebay.

I always prefer to have the original box, manuals etc.. as it's something I enjoy collecting and using and I don't even mind paying over the top prices for such things.

But I also have the rom images download from various sites for the games that I own, simply because it's more convenient to run them from an HD and emulator on my iMac.

Reckon that makes me a pirate, but the thing is if you can't buy old software anymore whatever the platform, then what else are you supposed to do.

Even though as Crom00 says it's up to the IP holders and manufactures to take an interest in releasing old software, what are the chances of that happening when their view is quite simply all to do with making a big profit.

It would be great if all the companies that still hoard all this old software would put some of the vast profits that they have made over the years into re issuing a lot of this old stuff, instead of letting them gather dust.

I don't reckon it would actually cost them much to do so and they may in fact even make a profit from them. The trouble is the profit margin to such companies would not be significant enough for the greedy sods to sit up and take any notice.
 

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Re: Pirated Amiga software on ebay
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 10:16:14 AM »
Just been thinking... why do we all get so worked up about copyright infringement, Amiga Vs PC etc... etc...

I mean does any of the views or opinions we all express here really matter or have an effect on anything that goes on in the world...

Were Born, We Live, We Die... :)

Everything we do in life for 99% of us is really nothing more than passing the time until the day comes when we kick the bucket. All the things we've said and done soon gets lost forever with the passage of time. :(

Having said that and if nothing really matters, then I say sod the moral majority and the Amiga Copyright Mafia, lets all start flouting the copyright laws, lets all overload ebay with pirated software and argue the toss about which machines the best, at least it passes the time until we all meet the inevitable... :D
 

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Re: Pirated Amiga software on ebay
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 02:21:45 PM »
Hmm... so you think you know about copyright, there's a 7 Question quiz on the UK Governments Official Intellectual Property Office site. :)

Strange thing is I've just scored 7 out of 7 on it mainly due to the fact that the questions really only require some common sense answers. :)

But when you actually read through all the laws on copyright there, common sense seems to go straight out the window... :(

Why not give it a go, and see how you fare... ;)

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-quiz.htm
 

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Re: Pirated Amiga software on ebay
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2010, 09:22:46 PM »
In the words of the immortal Floyd... :)

:crazy: I CAN FEEL ONE OF MY TURNS COMING ON :sealed:

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Now where's me favorite axe.... ;)