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Subject: Olds vertions of commertial programs

Author: Adolfo Bormida

Date: 14:02:49 03/10/98


Hi to all!

My name is Adolfo Bormida and I'm from Argentina. This is my first post
in CCC. I hope you can take me a bit aof patient in order to my no good
english, but I want to write in CCC.

In R,G.C.C I post two messages in the lasts two days about how can I get
a copy of the psion 2.1 (a great program if we look it "age").

Also, I ask to all the newsreadear and in special to the programmers if
we shold consirerer piracy a trade of old vertions of chess play
programs (like Mchess 1.51 , 1.71, 3.5 or Mephisto Gideon or Genius 1.0
or 2.0, etx).

I'm a lawyer and I think that with a "formal"view this is a piracy,
because it violate the copywrites. But in "fact"we can thing that is no
piracy.

I  fact, this old vertions are not avaibles in the shopings. Are not
avaible the original disk and there are craked around the world!

I kwon that we shuold very carefully with this concept. But in the other
hand we can think that this propouse can do back in a good deal for the
programmers.

All the fans of the chess soft want all the programs. But is imposible
to buy all the programs  in this moment (there are too much very good
programs but they are very expensive).

One solution is the warez groups, but it is an illegal ans unethical
method -in this groups we can see  for dowload a CM series or a Power
chess series-.

Other solution: Go to the pirate shop. More illegal!

Other solution: a grup of friend buy a single original program and make
a copy. This way is very popular with the CD.

My solutions: the programmers give a permitions to trade or put in a web
page the old vertions. e; Mchess is for ver. 7, give permition to trade
the vertion 4 or 5, Lang give a permition to trade a Genius 3, etc.

In this wat all the fans can obtanin a legal copy of a the top programs
( two vertions old) and can make a evaluation for a buy the lastest
vertion.

Other possible solutions is the special offfert: eg: Price of Rebel 9 $
XX
price of Rebel 8 50 % Rebel 7 20 %.

I only want to open a honet discution abaut this topic, and a realist
method to brocke the piracy!

I know that this is more difficult to the easy solutions
"Anonymous-warea" and all to put the cracked vertions in this places!

Is only my views :)

Best Regards to all

Adolfo Bormida
Kaz@giga.com.ar
(NO Anonymous!)

PS: I apologize to all for my bad sintax. but my native language is
spanish not english! :)



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