Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!devon!stb!michael
From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Disk Backup (#2)
Message-ID: <10436@stb.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 20:03:20 GMT
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Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, Usa, +1 213 459 7231
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Why does everyone say this is a piracy hoax?

Consider: Here we have a small scale duplicator, much like the large commercial
ones, only smaller. For $2 if you sent a disk, he'd duplicate it; for $5
if it was one he had, he'd duplicate it. Now, how unreasonable is that?

Someone said, "Buy marauder, and forget him". But you can't buy marauder--
you have to keep on buying the G-D-updates. When I bought Marauder, both
the ads and the package back said "Copies any disk"; when I took it home
and opened it (too late to return it) it said, "Marauder only copies
those disks we say it will copy; for others, please buy our nice upgrades
and pay for the program many times over".

Thats unacceptable.

Whats worse is that some things just won't copy even with the next brain file
to come out. Brain 10 still didn't copy emerald mines, and I wound up
going in with db and removing the protection (see later article).

I took the ad as someone saying, "I have developed my own copy program, and
I will make sure it copies anything. I will offer it as a service for
$2 per disk. Oh yea--I also have a complete fish collection which I will
sell for $5 per disk, or $2 if you send a blank. If you and I both own
the same game, and you are willing to say that you own it, then for $5
I will copy it and you won't have to send in the disk". That last part
is not piracy--you had to sign a statement that yes, you did own the game,
making you sueable, not him. He may not have been aware that someone under
18 could not enter a contract--I didn't (although it seems reasonable if
you think about it.)

I really think its a shame that this person was flammed to a third degree
burn level so fast; it really reduces the chance of any such venture
from being started. And yes, I think that there's money to be made.
Start by backing up Aracknoid--Discovery wants $3, you charge $2, you
make the profit. :-)
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