New run of Guru Book cancelled due to pirate copy in circulation

[Fats]

Golem!dk wrote:
And 217 people have downloaded the pdf so far.

I am one of those 217. But as I also have the dead tree version of the English Guru book I don't consider myself a pirate. I actually wanted to see what all the hype was about.
And no, I'm not selling the dead tree version; the book is not in a sellable state anymore anyway

greets,
Staf.

[HenryCase]

Fats wrote:
I am one of those 217. But as I also have the dead tree version of the English Guru book I don't consider myself a pirate. I actually wanted to see what all the hype was about.
And no, I'm not selling the dead tree version; the book is not in a sellable state anymore anyway

So Fats, as someone who owns a copy of the first edition of the Amiga Guru Book can you tell me the sections you found the most useful? Or perhaps the whole book is full of useful information you can't get elsewhere? Just curious.

[TheMagicM]

thats pretty sad.. not publishing will force people who want the book to download it........even for just curiosity..

[Fats]

HenryCase wrote:

So Fats, as someone who owns a copy of the first edition of the Amiga Guru Book can you tell me the sections you found the most useful? Or perhaps the whole book is full of useful information you can't get elsewhere? Just curious.

I would be the part about the history of BCPL with amigaDOS and how it lead to the BPTR/BSTR implementation. Also the section about packets and handlers together with the example handler I found very interesting.

greets,
Staf.

[Andeda]

Im sure that many of us here have downloaded it, but are still ready to buy it if it was released.

[Hans_]

Well, the petition is almost at 200 now.

Hans

[niklasni1]

Im sure that many of us here have downloaded it, but are still ready to buy it if it was released.

Why would anyone buy something they'd already downloaded? That doesn't make any sense all. It's never happened in the history of the universe ever and we need digital restrictions management on everything, and death penalty for copyright infringements...

[Andeda]

niklasni1 wrote:

Im sure that many of us here have downloaded it, but are still ready to buy it if it was released.

Why would anyone buy something they'd already downloaded? That doesn't make any sense all. It's never happened in the history of the universe ever and we need digital restrictions management on everything, and death penalty for copyright infringements...

Like someone already said here before,
Because a lousy pdf is just not the same than a REAL Amiga Guru book in the shelf.

[Phantom]

I will agree with Andeda. Reading a PDF magazine or even worse a book it's pain in the eyes! I like better the "old" way, of printed.

[Andeda]

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Now we have 209 signatures.

[HenryCase]

Golem!dk wrote:
And 217 people have downloaded the pdf so far.

Hey Golem!dk, just wondered, how many people have downloaded the torrent since you posted this? The petition has reached 234 signatures now.

@all
Oh, and I'm doing another push for people to sign the petition. There is still hope that Ralph is reconsidering, the last e-mail I got from him was not discouraging.

[jj]

I cant help but think that if they had not brought this up, hadly anyone would have known about the torrent

[EvilGuy]

JJ wrote:
I cant help but think that if they had not brought this up, hadly anyone would have known about the torrent

Personally, I would've bought the book had I seen an ad for it on amiga.org from say, amigakit. I wouldn't have even thought about looking for it in a torrent.

[Retro_71]

Like it has been stated i and alot of others including some of the Mods didnt even know the torrent existed in the first place. I also would have bought one... i hope he does reconsider.. Oh Well

[koaftder]

The authors need to accept the money, people want to pay. It's a rare thing in business that customers ask the host to take their money for a product.

[Golem!dk]

@HenryCase

302 according to the tracker... sticking to my dead tree version here, should the revised edition be printed I'd probably buy a copy.