Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered - What are your thoughts on such a site?

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>So what is an Apple II user to do? My opinion: revive pirating. Let's
>copy all the software out there before it disappears forever. The Apple
>II is still a very useful machine. We shouldn't be forced to give ours
>up just because we're sick of the software we have. There was enough
>software made to keep users happy for many more years ahead. Finding it
>is the hard part.
>
>In most cases, I see no ethical problem with this. No one is losing. In
>the next few decades, the copyrights on the software will expire anyway.
>In a few cases, there is software that's still commercially supported --
>even if it's just by one guy with a makeshift website. Such software
>should not be pirated yet. My opinion is, if it has been supported
>within the last five years, hands off. But that's about one-tenth of one
>percent of all of the Apple II software ever made. Will these companies
>come after us for copyright infringement? Nah. It's not worth their time
>and money. In fact, the creators of the Apple II software are probably
>happier knowing their code still lives.

   If we can somehow copy the disks and store them on CD's for the future
hobbiest, that would be the plan.  Floppies are not the way to go for the long
haul.  But then again, in 10 or so years, how hard is it going to be to find a
box of good 5 1/4" floppies?

Raymond