On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:40:47 +0100 Thu, 5 Nov 98 22:42:49 GMT, you wrote:
>> Van: Graham Goring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Onderwerp: Elite
>> Datum: Thursday, November 05, 1998 6:46
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>> But luckily, Bob's just harmless.
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>Wich then gives us baiscally the same right to make a Sam version of Elite
>and spread it for free and Bob can not do a thing about it. It is not right
>in legal terms, but Braben is not considering taking any steps.
It is a bit of a kick in the teeth for those people who wanted to do ports of
games to SAM but couldn't because they couldn't get permissions from the
original licencee. Now here's a precedent which basically says you can port
any game to the SAM, charge what you like for it and, because sales are so
low, get off scot-free because it's not worth the rightful copyright owner to
sue. It's piracy by any other name.
Just think - if this happened five or six years ago, the end result would have
been Prince Of Persia being sold for the Speccy, and probably a LOT more ports
over to the SAM.
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