Author: Vine Smith
Date: 17:57:46 04/08/01
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On April 08, 2001 at 18:31:55, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 08, 2001 at 16:45:11, Vine Smith wrote: > >>Well, I'm surprised that some people are actually openly defending the >>downloading of an obviously illegal version of a commercial program. > >obviously? > >I disagree. > >It is not a clear case like downloading an illegal version of a new program and >nobody is interesting in buying the programs at that site. > >I believe that programmers like richard lang lost nothing from the fact that >people downloaded old programs like Genius2 so it make sense to think that >richard lang agreed to make it free. > >This thought may be wrong but I do not see a reason to be sure that it is wrong. > >Uri Don't you think if Lang didn't mind free distribution of old Chess Genius versions, he would offer one or more as a download at his site (which only offers the trial version of Genius for Palm OS)? Also, some vendors still sell old versions at fairly low prices -- I saw a package "Chess Genius Gold", which contains versions 1-5. I doubt Lang will starve to death because some obscure site is allowing downloads of CG2, which maybe could account for a maximum $100 lost income, and I suppose if I had little or no money, I might be tempted, but then again, why? Is free Crafty, Little Goliath, etc. not good enough? The hundreds of free Winboard engines don't provide enough variety? And I really think it's very risky -- download enough "hacked" programs, and one day, after seeing the message "Loading", a little popup will appear saying "HA! HA! HA! Your drive erased courtesy of SUPER-PHREAK!" or something similarly entertaining.
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