| [News] Amiga Inc Closes Down Another Pirate BBS | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 16-Apr-2001 11:30 GMT by Christian Kemp | 48 comments
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Via Moo Bunny:
Amiga Inc. has closed down the amiga.rulez.org online pirate BBS. A bit of good news for few companies still selling/developing Amiga stuff.
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| Posted by Thomas Frieden on 17-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (David Shipman):
Hi,
As someone directly affected: It might be true that the Amiga sold a lot of hardware due to piracy, but it also went down the drain due to that. In the current situation, I find it a bit hillarious to defend piracy. Do you konw that current Amiga games have a sold-piracy rating of 1:5 up to 1:15 ? This means for one game sole, 5 to 15 are copied.
No matter what aspect of piracy you want to defend, but this ratio is driving a lot of current Amiga software companies to extinction.
I've been flamed by a lot of people on other message boards for "whining" about the bad sales on Amiga. I'm about to accept if somebody says that he won't buy our games, because he doesn't like them, the hardware specs are too high, or whatever, but the amount of pirated copies out there clearly indicate that there is a lot of demand for Amiga software, but even today, people are still not thinking about what damage they do to Amiga developers by copying software.
Piracy might or might not have sold a lot of Amigas in the past, but in the current situation, piracy will give it the final blow. Piracy might boost the hardware sales, but it will kill the software, and that will bring down even the best hardware salse. This is exactly what happened to the Amiga once. Next time, it will be the last time.
Thomas |
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