Somebody, somewhere, said:
> > > I can only say that I see people like Martos as
> > > a huge threat to the entire revival project.
> > I don't. The revival project is largely open source. How would you 'crack'
> > and illegaly copy open source. Plus, you assuming that Martos is still
> > interested in crackin & copying software...
>
> Again.. read what I said: people LIKE Martos.
> What if someone like Martos cracks old roms to be used on the MSX-Player
> (as far as I understood, the old ROM-games on the internet will be useless,
> because you need the encrypted version from MSX-Server)
Ok, I've met Martos personally so maybe I could say sth about him.
Last time I saw him (a long time ago, actually) he was "out of the business"
of cracking. In fact, he was involved in the development of some kind
of game with Manuel Pazos, although finally things didn't work out due
to studies, I think.
About the fact that he used to crack games, what can I say? Most games he
cracked were not for sale in Europe, so at least for me was the only way to
get them (and no, I don't think piracy was the reason that made Japanese
companies decide not to sell in Europe). Whenever I've found some original
game I've been interested in, I've buyed it if the price was reasonable, which
wasn't always. Check out e-bay if you wanna laugh your ass about how much
money is asking ppl for games.
Obviously, setting up the MSX-Server means money, but do they really
want to pay it selling old ROMs that nearly everybody has? Nowadays,
with more and more developers going into open source, maybe that's not
a good idea. I'd be for the idea of retiring the ROMs from Internet if (and
only if :)) they do not ask money for the ones they place on MSX-Server.
This would mean that anyone who wants to download the ROM would
have to do it from them, this way they would have lots of connections
(and bucks, through advertisments and that sort of things).
IMHO, if the new MSX project finally succeed or not won't be
cause of piracy, but because the effort the companies put on it. As someone
said in the list, just take a look at PC: everybody copies games since the
very beginning, and still going on. As I see it, Nishi's ideas are great
because
they mean MSX users will have a common goal, and we can put our effort
together instead of trying to "save" MSX everybody at the same time but with
different projects.
Phew, I used to write *small* mails :)
Grtx,
Cleme
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