Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>]

CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

> If you decide to auction it on ebay, you will get a lot less bids if
> a bunch of people have downloaded it for free and don't particularly
> care if they have an original or not, therefore the bidding won't go
> as high.

It will go roughly as high, provided you have two collectors
ready to pay top dollar for an original Red Book.

In my opinion, the hands-on imperative trumps copyright law in
this case. I have no use for Red Book scans as I have my own
Red Book, but I think it will be a good thing to have this
information on the Internet. I know you disagree, but I would
rather not take part in yet another csa2 piracy thread.

> The same thing has probably being going on for some time with software
> seeing as there is so much stuff being illegally distributed.

I've seen original versions of early Ultimas go for lots of money,
even though the publisher offers the same software on "Classic"
CD-ROM collections.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net