Robert van der Veeke wrote: > > >That still doesn't answer the copyright question. > > > > Ah, ok, yes, sorry, I got tooooo busy on one strand and forgot the > > other one. > > > > Full versions of the Amstrad game were purchased on the open market. > > The discs (3 inch) or tapes were then scrapped and replaced with SAM > > discs. In this way there was no defrauding of the original copyright > > owner. > > Right, now this is something I would like to see you explaining to a judge > when you have been charged with copyright infrigements. Bob this is plain > fraud and theft, no matter how you explain it. > > Usually you are just shooting yourself in your foot, but it looks like you > have blown of a leg this time, and you can't stand on one. > > Sjeesh, and here is someone complaining about me that I reposted a > insulting email to the Sam-mailing list, that the person (Bill Ritman, only > known on the list and nowhere else on the intire internet) in question has > to give me permission to use his insulting email pointed at me in public. > > You probably will not answer me because i am still in your killfilter, but > i am going to take it to the list anyway, and don't come with that crappy > copyright stuff about taking this from a public forum to another public > forum to me.
Okay, well I can soon see the sparks flying again with regards to quoting the above again, but .... AFAIK the Spectrum version has been released as PD on the Internet via Ian Bell (as well as the others), but the copyright also belongs to David Braben, who (despite the rave reviews of V2000 ;) is notoriously protective about his work. I really wonder how it does stand with regards to him? Technically, as the SAM version is only a patched Speccy one, it could be okay ... but it is a funny position. Oh well, just my tuppence worth ;) David
