Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!jkt100 From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: <90194.231508JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 90 03:15:08 GMT References: <1765@mountn.dec.com> Distribution: na Organization: Penn State University Lines: 30 In article <1765@mountn.dec.com>, kendrix_j@mims.enet.dec.com (John R. Kendrix) says: >I think removing the demo *IS* censorship. If you find it so offensive, why >not just clean it up!! You know, everyone of those demos come with a text >file, which has the offensive numbers in it etc. Why not simply edit the file >to say, 'Piracy hurts us all, please don't pirate software!', or use it to >promote world peace... Or, if you wanted to be very clever, then change the >phone number of the Pirate boards, to a Paris Interpol number etc... I've tried. Nearly all the demos I've found that had pirate BBS numbers or profanity in them, were also all encoded so that you couldn't change the messages without a lot more work than just whipping out NewZap... A pity too... some of the most profane ones were those with the best graphics, but I had to discard them because, although I don't have the cleanest vocabulary in the world, so it didn't hurt me, I sure don't want to show off my machine with four letter words. Anyway, these pirates already thought of your editing idea, and pretty well prevented it. Kurt -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- || Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || Amigas, Macs, IBM's, C-64's, NeXTs, || || 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. || Apple ]['s.... I use 'em all. || || Malvern, PA 19355-2214 || (and in that order too! ;-) || || jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu --------------------------------------|| || jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || -----------------------------------------------------------------------