Re: Piracy

[kloesch@nauticom.net (Kevin Loesch)]

>>I do not condone piracy of software that 
>>is still produced and being sold(Oregon trail by MECCA is an example), but the
> 
>>vast majority of II and IIgs software is no longer commercially available and 
>>it definitly isn't commercially viable or else these companies would still 
>>sell it. Face it, the Apple II market is commercially dead. Its is going to 
>>stay dead. I still love my machines but I have no fanasties that the apple II 
>>is going to make some giant comeback and reconquer the world. Let peaple enjoy
> 
>>the machines they have. If all the Anti-Piracy crusaders had their way anyone 
>>who picked up a used machine at a garage sale would be stuck running only 
>>BASIC  and DOS 3.3,  if they were lucky.
>
>Not at all.  Besides, if the owners of these properties don't care, they'll 
>surely admit it, won't they?

        Not all creators of Apple II software browse the Internet on a 
regular biases. Some of these people have lost touch with the Apple market and 
moved on to other things. A good example of this is the Williams Arcade 
Collection CD. They interview several of the authors of classic arcade games 
like Joust and Defender. Many of the authors of these games admitted that they 
had no idea that people still played these games and that there was any 
interest in them at all. My point was that if the companies still cared about 
the piracy of the old software they would complain(Ex. MECCA). Only area were 
I can see the intellectual property argument  is when people sell CDs that 
contain copyrighted material and trying to make money off of someone elses 
work, that is wrong. 
        

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