Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 10:51:21 01/03/04
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On January 03, 2004 at 13:13:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 03, 2004 at 11:28:27, joe rotwell wrote: > >>I'm not posting under my real name either, but I can tell you that this forum is >>composed of groups of people who are exchanging (usually not for money) every >>chess software package, cracked if necessary. >> >>Some of the network hubs for this exchange process are very well known figures, >>ironically also making posts against software piracy. I could name several of >>them. >> >>Commercial programmers who are able to track the names of persons who have >>legally bought their software will confirm that the names of those making >>comments on the forum about those commercial packages are rarely, if ever, on >>purchasing lists. >> >>... a commercial programmer who knows about these things. > >I'm not sure I buy into this argument. You can get the various commercial chess >engines via many different avenues. I can buy from Chessbase, from Amazon, from >ICD, from my local computer stores, and probably many other places. If I buy all >of my chess software from ICD, how is Chessbase or whoever going to know if I >bought their software or not? If a friend of mine buys me a chess program for >Christmas (which happened this year) no one is going to have any record of my >name. If I walk into a computer store and buy a chess program with cash, there >is no record anywhere of me owning that program. Since what you say is true, what Joe Rotwell (called BananaJoe from now on, since both names are equivalent in this case) is saying has no content. Just forget BananaJoe and enjoy computer chess.....or your friends. ;-) Alessandro
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