Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!sisd!athena!jeh From: jeh@athena.sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: <1990Jul13.154213.11818@sisd.kodak.com> Date: 13 Jul 90 15:42:13 GMT References: <6511.269c8e61@vax1.tcd.ie> <3492@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@sisd.kodak.com Organization: Printer Products Division Eastman Kodak Lines: 18 Has anyone ever wondered where the demo writers get those nice huge fonts for their scrolling messages? One demo that I downloaded a few years ago (from a commercial service, no less) included a file named 77, which turned out to be a verbatim copy of a commercial 77 point Helvetica lookalike disk font (sold by Zuma, I think.) Granted, there are many more sources of public domain Amiga fonts today than there were back then, and it's not out of the question for these demo authors to design their own, but I don't see why the author of a program whose purpose is to annouce new cracked 'warez' to fellow pirates should be given the benefit of the doubt. (I'm not saying all demos are written by pirates. The Wild Copper demos, in particular, while somewhat vulgar, explicitly discourage piracy.) -- Ed Hanway (speaking for myself, not my employer)