Why are we all not doing this and making loads of money

[foleyjo]

Ebay item

This guy made £20 on this and at the bottom it says that it follows ebay guidelines.

I dont believe it does and would say that its piracy. Am I wrong?

[RRunner]

I think that would depend on the content. One would have to examine each and every piece of software included to see if there were distribution limitations. The seller has conveniently put everything together in one place and is selling that as a service. It is also clearly marked that all of the contained material is public domain and thus free. I would consider paying someone a fee to put together a CD of public domain content that I was interested in. Is that illegal? I don't think so...

[ddniUK]

No your not wrong, this guy is a sheister!

[pureevil]

shady

[redrumloa]

Piracy in it's worst form.

[rednova]

Friends:

I bought a similar package from ebay. It was 3 cd's including a winuae style emulator and thousands of games.
However..I played lots of them...they were all public domain...and not a single pirate game. The only commercial kind of game was 'ports of call' and I believe this is not pirate though. The package was called 'amiga classix' and it only costed between 20-40 us$.
Hope this helps...

rednova
-mobilis in mobile-

[weirdami]

Is stuff on aminet freely sellable like that?

[Nlandas]

He lists copyrighted material. I'd report it to eBay.

[swift240]

Lets get him...... :destroy:

[Vlabguy1]

Hey..that hurts..I spent loads of time..downloading and copying games on these CDs..so I think I should get paid for the effort.. :-)


Haha..just kidding its not me....
If he is violating copyright laws then ebay should pull his auctions and suspend his account..

swift240 wrote:
Lets get him...... :destroy:

[Akiko]

I'm probably wrong but doesn't the complaint have to come from the individual/company thats copyright is being infringed?

Would they even care?

[Lemmink]

Whenever I see this hypocrite kind of thread it reminds me that I definitely should get one of those CDs / DVDs.....

[Hattig]

I don't think that many ex-commercial Amiga games are Public Domain. I know a lot are available because the publishers have allowed them to be downloaded for free, but I imagine that the terms of release don't make them public domain technically, nor to sell for a profit.

This is definitely shady.

Then again I bought PD discs with Spectrum games and a Spectrum emulator back in the mid 90s.

[Lando]

Lemmink wrote:
Whenever I see this hypocrite kind of thread it reminds me that I definitely should get one of those CDs / DVDs.....

Absolutely right.  More than worth the £20 price just for the dozens of hours it would save on the web looking for and downloading the ADF's.

[foleyjo]

Lando wrote:

Lemmink wrote:
Whenever I see this hypocrite kind of thread it reminds me that I definitely should get one of those CDs / DVDs.....

Absolutely right.  More than worth the £20 price just for the dozens of hours it would save on the web looking for and downloading the ADF's.

What Im sayng though isnt this is wrong he shouldnt do it. Its if other people are legally entitled to do it then why dont the rest of us join in. Im sure I could make a load of disks with WINUAE and games for the amiga.
Heck Ill sell them at £10

Ive also noticed these things appearing a lot but with different games. turns out you only need to put 1 or 2 games on the CD these days