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Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:
pampers wrote:
DiskDoctor: that's even more than sad that some AmigaOS users are uploading full versions of their os on torrents or other warez sites. The community is so small that the whole situation is absolutely crazy. I've even seen two idiots fighting on piratebay who uploaded AOS4.1 for SAM as a first one.
Upload MorphOS everywere you can, but only a demo version without the key (which is no use on any other machine anyway than it was registered).
Pampers - uploading OS4 (for A1 or SAM or any other version custom coded for special hardware that *simply can't be bought without OS4* in the first place) on the pirate bay didn't hurt anyone! It had *absolutely zero* impact on Hyperion's finances or anything else! If Hyperion would try to sue anyone for this, they wouldn't be able to prove any damage whatsoever!
If anything, it did two things:
1) It winded up those predictable people who always tends to see these kind of things as a personal attack on themselves and instantly runs off to forums to cry about it (which I guess is kind of fun, and probably *the only* reason to why it was uploaded in the first place, i.e. just to tease you)
2) It put some light on the whole "business model" Hyperion is using, which is kind of bizarre ("don't let people try before they buy, don't port the OS to widely spread HW that people may actually have, don't even port it to HW people *may potentially want*, no, the Amiga has always been an expensive hobby, and the hardware has always been... uhm, "special", and not having the OS pirated is more important than having any users at all)
MorphOS is Amiga
done right! MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!