Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!swift.cs.tcd.ie!vax1.tcd.ie!cpmurphy From: cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: <6511.269c8e61@vax1.tcd.ie> Date: 12 Jul 90 14:51:13 GMT References: Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin Lines: 49 In article , mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) writes: > 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 haven't noticed Marco Papa asking for any demos. Did you? > 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. This is bullshit. I'd like to see you fit the red sector demo onto a bootblock. > 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. This sounds like xenophobia to me. "It's all right for a few All-American kids to use Marauder II now and then, but for those dirty foreigners who don't *even* speak English properly (what a crime!), to actually try to crack a game is far, far worse." > 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. Right. These "skillful programmers" only want games for themselves. In fact, they spend ALL their time trying to crack Amiga games. > I think that supporting these demos is akin to supporting the pirates > themselves, and should be stopped. Who is supporting them? I mean, you don't pay any money for them. You don't vote for them. But who says all these people are pirates anyway. This sort of blanket accusation is not acceptable. Hey, I think the BADGE killer demos should be "stopped". I mean, they're free too. Obviously they're pirates too! > Jason Jason, you're a self-righteous git. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie cpmurphy%vax1.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu ...uunet!mcsun!ukc!swift.cs.tcd.ie!vax1.tcd.ie!cpmurphy