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Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« on: February 05, 2011, 10:50:36 PM »
Hmm... Just received an email from "commodore@amiga.com" in regard to my CommodoreScotland.com site...

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Please Enter Your Email Address In Order To Receive A Reply, Thank You...:
commodore@amiga.com

Please Give A Subject Matter For A Quicker Response...:
Software piracy on your site

Please Enter Your Message Or Question Here...:
You are risking jail time for this:


I wonder who this could be !!! and what his actual complaint is, seem the games afoot now... :)

Just wondering especially from those of you who are both members here and members of my site what your opinions on this are and if you find my CommodoreScotland.com site entertaining & useful (for what it is so far)... :)
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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 11:14:02 PM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;612835
Oi!  Approve me! :furious:

:laughing:


Approve you for what ???

(Do you really need my approval... ;))
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 11:37:15 PM »
Quote from: number6;612853
Forgive me for not understanding this well, atm.
Is this claimed to be coming from amiga.com, which is AI?

#6


Dunno that's the email address it was sent from... :(
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 11:50:16 PM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;612865
Also, totally offtopic, but with that behemoth of an A1200T you have, Franko, how have you NOT gotten that thing on the net if you wanted to?


Kinda feel that putting my Amiga on the net is dirty in a weird sort of way... :)

Don't mind soiling these old macs with the net, but I think "Albert" that's my towered Miggies name (named of my old tortoise, gawd rest his/her soul) would be upset to read all the nasty things going on in AmigaLand... :)

Best let Albert think all's hunkey dorey in the world, methinks... :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 12:12:17 AM »
Quote from: Kesa;612874
Exactly what software is in question of piracy?

Also one of the directors at c=usa is a lawyer and daughter of the main director :)


Well it could be the 8000+ Amiga Game ADF disk images... :)

Or

It could be the Workbench Disk Sets... :)

Or

It could be the Kickstart ROM images... :)

Not sure really he didn't say much... :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2011, 12:58:05 AM »
@ all
Thanks guys for the replies, much appreciated... :)

Anyway I've decided to ignore whomever the wee jobby is as he hasn't had the bottle to respond to an email I sent... :)

The Download page is now back up & running and if some wee crapbag want's to anonymously challenge me on it again then he'd better have something a bit more to say next time... :)

(hope it was a big company though, it's becoming my new hobby taking on the big boys and I haven't been involved in a good court case in years... :))
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 02:10:04 AM »
Quote from: Darrin;612901
Let me know if you have any more issues.  I did a really interesting explosives course while I was in the army and I've never had the chance to try it out on a grand scale.  ;-)


Well... there is this old fart a few doors down who's ruddy cat keeps doing dooh dahs in me garden and frightening the squirrels away... :madashell:

Reckon your talents could come in quite handy in solving that wee problem... ;)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 03:06:18 AM »
@ haywirepc

You just need LZX (available on Aminet) just the same as LHA but better compression... :)

@ Digiman

Doesn't really matter now, if it's real then I'm up for the challenge if it's just some numptie, then who cares... :)

@KThunder

I ain't gonna argue over that, just reckon unless Workbench was still available and easy for folks to buy then it wouldn't be on my site, as far as I'm aware the only supposed legal way to purchase Workbench is on the Amiga forever disks and that's hardly fair if Amiga forever is no good to you... :)

@ Darrin

I'll take a pic of it in the morning, although that pic that nicholas put up has a pretty strong resemblance (it's just a big pussy)... :)

(and tory or not, I'll pay you anyday to blow the bugger to hell...:lol:)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 03:19:04 AM »
Quote from: A4000_Mad;612963
Neighbours sure can get on your nerves Franko :madashell: Mine just knocked on my door at 3:10am. Can you believe that?! 3:10am!! Luckily for him I'm still up playing my trumpet! ;)


I know... but you didn't answer the ruddy door to me... :madashell:

Now keep that bloody noise down or play a tune I like... ;)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 02:09:55 PM »
Quote from: dammy;613088
Nice collection of kickstart/WB for download.  Any reason you haven't put up OS4 ISOs yet or WB 3.5/3.9?  AO sure has changed since Pyro took over, never thought piracy would be freely advertised.


If you've got the bottle take me up in a legal battle over it, and just to answer your question OS4.0 is crap and I wouldn't waste the storage space with it...

Still it's a bit rich coming from CUSA biggest FanBoy who's hero proudly promotes on his Website that "as practically every game you ever owned is now readily available on the internet."... ;)

DAMMYS FAVOURITE WEBSITE HELPS PROMOTE PIRACY

It's all a bit rich coming from the likes of you eh.. :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2011, 02:27:38 PM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;613095
Actually there have been successful attempts to legally force people to remove wb/ks rom images from peoples sites. Personally I think youre potentially asking for trouble keeping them there, especially in light of you drawing attention to yourself. I dont really care myself, but I'd be surprised if it wasnt just a matter of time before you received genuine emails over it. As for OS4.x, it's the amiga based OS I have least interest in, but to call it crap just 'cos it doesnt run well on an old bppc+aga combo is a bit far fetched.


To be perfectly honest I don't give a S&!T about the legal arguments, I'm just glad hundreds of folk have already been able to download these for free. If it comes to a legal case I'm quite happy to fight it...:)

The same stuff on my site can be found easily on the net and why no-ones complaining about them I don't know. Simple fact here is those who pretend to be all high and mighty on the subject are nothing but a bunch of two faced hypocrites... :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2011, 03:50:55 PM »
Quote from: persia;613134
Does your system allow you to check the ip address of who sent the comment?  My quess is it wasn't anyone even remotely connected to C=USA or AI.


Dunno, I'm not sure what an IP address means or how to go about checking it... :(

Now if someone could give me few tips I'd be happy to try and find out (although judging by the other thread Dammy AKA MR SUPERGRASS has all but admitted it was him)...
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2011, 04:09:30 PM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;613138
Sure, it's not hard to find them (ks images), but there's been more than a few situations where sites hosting them have been forced to remove them, instigated by A.Inc (although Im dubious your email is from them and in the last year or so they seem to have stopped persuing it with the vigour they once did). If it comes to that then you'll lose if you choose to fight it. Love or hate them, it is thier property. Again though, I personally dont really care.
I assume your last sentence is in regards to Dammy, and I have to agree that yes, it's just Dammy being Dammy.


Well as I never received a reply to the email I sent to whomever sent that one to me, then the site shall remain as is until whomever it is clarifies just what they are objecting to in detail... :)

Then and only then will I decide whether to remove whichever items them are referring to or whether to challenge them further... :)

Yes, Last comment was directed at MR SUPERGRASS... :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2011, 04:35:49 PM »
Quote from: MR SUPERGRASS AKA BUMBOY AKA LOSER AKA WEIRDO;613141
Yet you spent the time and money for anonymous domain registration?  



Why would I even bother sending you an email?  I wouldn't bother to email you Mr.Pirate, who is costing Cloanto sales.  I would send it to abuse@names.co.uk and to Pyro that your spamming your pirate wares site on his site.  But I haven't because Pyro seems to feel comfortable with you promoting your pirate site.


Right I've gathered by now that your very dim indeed, I spent the time all 20 minutes of it in response to a thread on here a while back buying the site name CommodoreScotland.com which dummy is not anonymous although judging by your lack of intelligence you obviously think that anonymous means something with a name, you really are thick aren't you... :lol:

You can send emails to whomever you like and while your at it why not send one about your beloved CUSA promoting the availability of pirated software, I could have easily done this myself but I'm not a petty sniveling little turd like you are... :)

Why do you keep bringing Pyro into this ?, seems you just can't handle anything that's said against your bum chum & his rip off site. Do me favour and go and play in the traffic although you'd probably complain when you get run over that the car that hit you was not the latest CUSA model and was just a crappy Rolls Royce that ran you down... :)

I've met some very weird folk in my time but you've gotta rate as one of the all time saddest and weirdest little pieces of crap I've even had the misfortune to come across... :)

Keep up with your personal attacks, your doubting who I am and all the rest of the BS you spout, as to be honest with you I find this a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon... :)

I can't wait to see what you wee brain cell manages to come up with next... :)
 

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Re: Commodore Scotland Under Threat...
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2011, 04:49:18 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;613143
I'd like to think that the reason OS4.x isn't on there is more because it is an active product which you can still purchase, unlike the other stuff.

I just realised that AI never even bothered putting copies of WB3.1 for sale in their online shop.


OS4 isn't there because it's still on sale same as OS3.9 isn't on there, everything else that's there is because other than downloading them from sites like mine from the net there is not other way for folk to easily (if at all) purchase them anymore... :)

As I've said anyone can easily find every piece of Amiga software on the net, just reckon it's way past the time to stop pretending that this is not the case and put an end to all the nonsense that this is somehow harming sales somewhere and pretending that this doesn't happen... :)

I've already said here that you can get hold of KS ROMS & Some Workbench versions by purchasing Cloanto's Amiga Forever but what about folk who have no use for Amiga Forever why should they have to pay over the odds for something when all they need is a working copy of some Workbench disks... :)

At the end of the day I don't make a single penny from my site in fact it costs me money to run the thing, so what the fuss is all about I really don't know... :)