Malfador Games Pirated

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
people? which people? i wouldn't, i don't think anyone i know on these forums would...

Poeple who have no value for other people and the hard work they put into something. They steal something that is not theirs, copy it, and then make money off of selling it to others. These people are parasites and need to be rooted out and killed like deased vermon.

This is why I am a big advocate of conquring the world. If we ruled the worlds, then people who would dare pirate SE IV or any product of Shranels would simply be made to dissappear. Although some day they might find their remains, rest assured they would never be able to identify them.

Then agian, if this was your only means to feed your family, what can do?

[ January 13, 2004, 05:03: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Roanon]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
This is why I am a big advocate of conquring the world. If we ruled the worlds, then people who would dare pirate SE IV or any product of Shranels would simply be made to dissappear.

Like amazon.com ripping off their customers via third-party resellers?

[Paul1980au]

SE4 and then SE5 should have additional copywright protection measures ie having to turn to page x and write a word randomly chosen from the text - this would make it harder to simply sell the stolen copy )(i saw that done in elite II) unless they have the booklet they can play onwards.

Other suggestions are welcome but its a big shame so many games are pirated. Its illegal and i agree 100% we should pay for quality games.

[Gryphin]

Paul1980au
The week point with the Page x Paragraph Y Third word is that they can include a single sheet of paper with all of them.

[Karibu]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well it was more expensive making copies back in 87-88. Esp. if you buy CDs in bulk, you can make copies of programs for pennies each.

Actually, I would like to know how much 10-pack of CD's cost in US? In Finland 10-pack CD-R costs about 9 € (~11,25$). 10-pack CD-RW is about 15 €.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Paul1980au
The week point with the Page x Paragraph Y Third word is that they can include a single sheet of paper with all of them.

i think he meant chosen from the whole manual.

[Gryphin]

narf you are correct.
It would take a little bit of effort but it is certainly doable. 100 code words would be more than enough to make it playable.

Beyond that they could scan the manual in and include it on the cd.

It is not a pretty world out there.