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Re: Coverdisks Archive?
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 01, 2008, 11:21:38 AM »
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stefcep2 wrote:

3. I find this offensive:

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Keep your illegal software to yourself or use PM.


because:

a)  you are alleging that I am the owner of the site
b)  that the site contains illegal software
c)  that I am trying to disseminate illegal software
d)  that its ok to disseminate illegal software by personal email

a), c) and d) are false, and b) may or may not be true.

FYI the link came up after a yahoo search to a page that provided the link.

Thank you.




Offensive? Hardly. I was just bothered (again) by the fact that warez links pop up on this forum too often lately. I'm not accusing you (or anybody else) of owning or spreading any illegal software. For that matter: I'm no saint either, I've visited that site quite often myself :-)

I'm just trying to say that people should be careful when spreading links to illegal software. In Holland, there's hardly any trouble posting those links on forums since nobody really seems to care, but I've heard of a few cases (non Amiga though) in the US where forum/website owners had to pay ridiculous fines because some member spread illegal software. And I wouldn't like to see Wayne's paycheck going to those greedy {bleep}s in the US government :-)

As to your point d: no, that's not okay either, but at least nobody sees it  :-D
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Re: Coverdisks Archive?
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2008, 04:08:00 AM »
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McVenco wrote:

Offensive? Hardly. I was just bothered (again) by the fact that warez links pop up on this forum too often lately. I'm not accusing you (or anybody else) of owning or spreading any illegal software. For that matter: I'm no saint either, I've visited that site quite often myself :-)

I'm just trying to say that people should be careful when spreading links to illegal software. In Holland, there's hardly any trouble posting those links on forums since nobody really seems to care, but I've heard of a few cases (non Amiga though) in the US where forum/website owners had to pay ridiculous fines because some member spread illegal software. And I wouldn't like to see Wayne's paycheck going to those greedy {bleep}s in the US government :-)

As to your point d: no, that's not okay either, but at least nobody sees it  :-D


Understood, no worries.

Its an interesting discussion though. Years ago I spilled hot tea over my Workbench floppy, making it unreadable.  I went to a user group and asked if I could copy it off someone else.  No-one blinked.  More recently I had a virus Happy96 on one of the 6 install discs. I couldn't get rid of it with antivirus software, so I downloaded the adf's off this site.  No user group exists near me.  What else could I do: leave my hardware sitting there in an unusable state?
I now understand why Amiga.org cannot allow links to sites that may contain illegal software and I wont post links like that again.
 

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Re: Coverdisks Archive?
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2008, 07:32:45 AM »
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What else could I do: leave my hardware sitting there in an unusable state?


I used the same logic when the engine in my car blew up. I'm glad that chop shop was there to help me out.
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Re: Coverdisks Archive?
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2008, 09:49:28 AM »
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What else could I do: leave my hardware sitting there in an unusable state?


I used the same logic when the engine in my car blew up. I'm glad that chop shop was there to help me out.


What's "chop shop"
 

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Re: Coverdisks Archive?
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2008, 10:48:11 AM »
It's a terrible analogy that's what it is :)