Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: <6160@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 11 Jul 90 20:33:36 GMT Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 36 X-Local-Date: 11 Jul 90 13:33:36 PDT References: <3471@crash.cts.com> By the way, there is a new way going in Europe now. They are groups specialized into making demos, only demos !!! Not doing any cracks. The idea remains the same: showing off !!! And in the text all you can read is: "we are the Best !! look at our demo !! We dare XXX to do better, and we wind the Demo-Contest with it!!" That's all, no call for piracy, no reference to piracy. And if you see an address in the text, usualy you can read: "send your demos to: XXXX XXXX XXX, DEMOS and PD stuff only !!!!". Why ? Because there are a lot of European cops reading the texts in the demos too (and Europeans cops are active against pirates (especially the APP in France)), and so a lot of ex-pirates don't do anymore cracks, but just demos. I'm not for the pirates !!! I've seen all my programs cracked since the Commodore 64 years. But I like demos !!! When you're doing a demo you don't try to write clean, you just try to get the maximum of the machine !! And on the Amiga it's realy impressive !! Belive me, if you were able to comme back in the time to show actual demos to the people who made the Amiga in the first times of the Amiga 1000, they would have been surprised that such things are possible. (such as tri-playfield, nice musics and so on). And not all the demos are made by the pirates, the Wild Copper Demos have been made by people working in a shop (and you cloud read some ads for the shop in the demo text). I'm for the demos on the Amiga, that the fun of the Amiga (try to find a demo on an IBM or a Mac), and just because these demos show that the Amiga is the best computer around. JNM