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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Making Piracy work in your Favor
Message-ID: <2714@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jun 89 08:55:06 GMT
References: <4332@druhi.ATT.COM> <1108@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <1108@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:
>Advertising costs money.  Reviews are not under the control of the
>company producing the product, but of the magazine printing them.

So sure of this are you? Reviews have a price.
Big software companies have big lunches for reviewers with loads of booze.
I have read of game software as being great when reviewed and a load of
pud in references. Basically the company wrote the review itself.
Have you ever seen one of those ads that are a dead ringer for a review page?
The magazine shouldn't allow these sort of ads in but they do. For a price?

Other piracy issues:
Some say the price of software is too high. Some agree with this and some
don't. A lot of software comes in lavish and expensive packaging. This is
especially true of games software. And of course the cost of all this is
reflected in the price. I say lose it. The disk(s) and the manual is all there
really is. You can put them in a resealable plastic bag for all I care.
For games, a summary and a screenshot will do. Playtest it in the shop before
buying.

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