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| From: Crown (all posts)
Date: 1998-07-21
Subject: Re: Next one 2 Levente...
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Hi there,
>Well, there has been... Though, Elder quit spreading for money pretty
>soon... A lot of lame posing had been going on back then. More about that
>in a different posting!
>
>Yeah, because CONVERTED games violate the Copyright! So, it was kinda
>illegal to spread converted games (I guess no one really cared since the
>plus/4 wasn't popular!)
>
>I remember that ELDER was visited by some green dudes (and they were not
>form outer space :) )... They confiscated his eqipment (I don't know
>details) and he got in trouble because of converted games!
Did he got problems because selling the stuff, or simply for possessing the converted games? Actually it's illegal to reverse-
engineer, or modify (convert) the games. Also it is illegal to do derivative work on a product. (You not convert it, but recode the stuff on the info you could gather about it for example by playing it.
Actually Microsoft found a cheat around this, and used it to make the first MS-DOS version, and got away with it clean.)
And of course the possesion of illegal copies is illegal.
Mike, what would happen if for example someone, would convert the C64 version of Lemmings (property of DMA design) over to the Plus4.
(Absolutely theoretical question). I guess the original programmers might step over tha fact with a wow, but it is always possible that somenone might felt pissed off, also the reaction of a management like guy is quite unpredictable.... even that the plus4 can be considered dead from their point of view.
Tibor Biczo / Crown of GOTU
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