| [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 James Whelan on 23-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 44 (David Shipman):
Piracy might have sold Amigas in the beginning but in the end it was another nail in the coffin for Commodore. Software is the lifeblood of any platform - without it a machine is dead in the water. If piracy hadn't been so rampant on the Amiga, less developers might have left to develop for other platforms which had media that was harder to copy.
Of course piracy doesn't "harm" anyone literally - nobody's saying it does. But if you were a developer who toiled over a computer for nine months coding a game or an application, wouldn't you want people to pay for using it? This is what drove a lot of small developers away from the Amiga market - and that harmed everybody. |
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