Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!nntp-read!mofo From: mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 21:38:43 GMT References: <6511.269c8e61@vax1.tcd.ie> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston Univ., Computer Science Lines: 52 In-reply-to: cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie's message of 12 Jul 90 14:51:13 GMT In article <6511.269c8e61@vax1.tcd.ie> cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie writes: > I haven't noticed Marco Papa asking for any demos. Did you? WHO ???????? > > 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. Did I *EVER* say that *ALL* demos went on bootblocks? Especially the Red Sector demo? > 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." Sheesh! I don't recall saying that, either... > Right. These "skillful programmers" only want games for themselves. In fact, > they spend ALL their time trying to crack Amiga games. Well as a matter of fact, they do. Do you have any idea what they go through to just get their telephone codes? Even if they don't crack the games themselves and just copy them, it takes most of a day to upload and download to different boards and such, even with a 14.4 hst. And I wonder, where do all these demo programmers get 600 bucks for an hst? Hmmm? > 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! I never said *ALL* were pirates. I never said *ALL* demos were used and made by pirates. All I said was "with all the GOOD demos out, why give the pirate's demos attention?" > > Jason > > Jason, you're a self-righteous git. All I did was ask a simple question! Re-read the original posting. You see no accusations on my part, nor do I point a finger at anybody and call them a self-righteous git. (afraid to write my name because some Irish jerk will quote me on it)