Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!nntp-read!mofo From: mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 18:28:01 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston Univ., Computer Science Lines: 26 While the topic of PIRACY is so damned popular and flame-warranting... I have an interesting question. If there are so many people against even the smallest piracy (copying your friend's Marble Madness or something), how can these same people incessantly search for "The Red Sector demo" or the "Champs demo" or whatever others there are. I have seen many of these "demos" and they are indeed, quite impressive both in graphics and sound. HOWEVER, these "demos" are stuck on the boot block of pirated disks by pirates. These pirates are not your neighborhood copiers who use Marauder II to no end; these are juvenile europeans who use poor english and spend all their time trying to "crack" the latest amiga GAME. Most often these demos are made by somewhat skilled European programmers who want games for themselves, so they "contribute" these "demos" to the various pirate groups to use. IE, the programmers of the demos are most often pirates themselves. What is most ridiculous is the many FTP sites that carry these demos, and that people on the net constantly ask about them. I think that supporting these demos is akin to supporting the pirates themselves, and should be stopped. Jason