| [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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| Comment 1 | Bianca Campbell | | 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Seehund | | 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Buzzy | | 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Christian | | 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
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| Amiga Inc Closes Down Another Pirate BBS : Comment 5 of 48 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by David Shipman on 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | If I may play devil's advocate for a minute, bear with me, this is a somewhat controversial opinion.
The ease of pirating software (yes, thats right, "warez") sold more Amigas than any other factor. Case in point : kids. Loads of people had an Amiga to play games when they were young... why did they want an Amiga? Because their friends had Amigas... they could copy games. Simple. Realistically, is a 10 year old going to spend his pocket-money on mail-order software?
I'm not proposing we encourage piracy, by any means... software developers need to make a living like anyone else. Just take a look at the big picture... I know of someone who made the move away from Windows to get a G3 Powerbook. Now he's swapping it for a loaded Athlon box because "the Mac warez scene sucks". He (like 90% of computer users in most countries outside the US) doesn't perceive it as wrong not to buy software; its not an issue. Many people who never buy a piece of software in their lives become advocates for a platform on the strength of pirated software, and while they don't buy software themselves, somewhere down the line, they're bringing cash into the Amiga industry by bringing other people to the platform.
Its all very well and good to say "we don't want these people, let them use Windows". Fine. Thats just a big portion of the market gone... think about it. |
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