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Return of the anti-piracy colour code!Some of you may remember anti-piracy measures in Speccy games that looked like this: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/Je…
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More ridiculously out of proportion punishment for piracyFrom: [URL]http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Cal-State-Student-Faces-10-Year-Prison-Term-for-Playing-with-Video-Games-52386872.html[/URL]…
... COLOR=Blue][I]?Piracy, counterfeiting and ... COLOR=Blue][I]Counterfeiting and piracy have grown in recent ... associations estimate that counterfeiting and piracy now cost the U. ... "[I][COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=Blue]Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property ... -
Piracy (a good solution for both sides?)A week or two back, Micro-Mart wrote an interesting article about software piracy, although they didn't say anything new, as there's little if anythi…
... an interesting article about software piracy, although they didn't ... full price games) consider such piracy a real crime. Otherwise ... destructive, as they are encouraging piracy. If they'd stop ... stigma. Whilst full price piracy is considered acceptable by many ... -
The annoying anti-piracy ads on DVDs contain pirated music!Re: the "You wouldn't steal a car..." DVD adverts "Netherlands composer Melchior Rietveldt composed that ominous techno tune for a local film festiv…
... after being asked by anti-piracy group BREIN, who are funded ... .pedestrian.tv/entertainment/news/anti-piracy-movie-ads-caught-using-pirated ... -
Anti-piracy measures on Speccy games - What games have it?I was looking at the JSW card which gives you the grid location system for protecting the game against simple forms of copying, and I know that ATF h…
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Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
I was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a ... , and are the same as piracy, since in both cases the ... are as morally wrong as piracy[/I]", someone inevitably replies with ... -
Teenage Mutant Hero TurtlesI loaded this game up on my Speccy using a TZX file. Unfortunately, because of the hype at the time, they had one of those piracy blocker things: it …
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WARNING!!! American Pirate Strike Again!This is a message about piracy of the lowest kind, the American Corporation are robbing artist of their works and not paying for it. I am not alone! …
This is a message about piracy of the lowest kind, the American Corporation are robbing artist of their works and not paying for it. I am not alone!
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The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... are, in fact, works of piracy, because by using them the ... ]fundamental distinction between emulation and piracy.[/I] Emulation, in the aforementioned ... cases, is always piracy; but piracy does not identify itself with ... -
Professional PiracyI was just wondering... Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a …
I was just wondering...
Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a few likely budgies (times were hard) I took the cases to the counter to buy them. Imagine my ... -
Speccy-related radio plays?Well, I?m new to the forum so I can?t resist to have my share of strange threads to liven up the forum a bit. Here goes... Did any of you guys eve…
... was swapping them. Well, schoolyard piracy was as common here as ... -
Bigger is not better!Now that I have your attention... ;) What great [B]16K[/B] games were there? Offhand I can remember: <UL><LI>[I]Timebomb[/I] (CDS Microsystems) (s…
... ]Popular Computing Weekly[/I] about piracy by others; talk about double ... -
Your Computer magazineJust noticed a few issues of 'Your computer' mag have been scanned and placed in the archive.(i'd forgotten it existed) Does anyone out there posses…
... ) had a feature on software piracy in the schoolyard, the cover ... -
911 corns piracyehm, people heard and discussed lotta facts and rubbish about this "conspiracy", sorry for posting this link, don´t want the children of the cor…
ehm, people heard and discussed lotta facts and rubbish about this "conspiracy", sorry for posting this link, don´t want the children of the corn (davey) and other babblers to stir the pot much, but after watching David Hasselhof´s "great" video [I]jump in ... -
Manic Miner for PlayStation OneI was just browsing RetroSpec for some remakes to try out and noticed that there is a Manic Miner remake for the PSOne (link: [url]http://retrospec.s…
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Inspired games[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/basedon.html[/url] I'm sure there's bound to be far more (especially in the "coin-op" section) than are currentl…
... .T.", from David "Mr. Anti-Piracy" Webb
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More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... relevent hardware, the fact that piracy of PC games is so ... much easier than console piracy, not to mention the computer ... the end user, much less piracy, and the games you write ... -
PiracyAlthough I'm sure no-one here ever copied tapes :rolleyes: , does anyone actually know of someone being prosecuted "back in the day" (to quote a Kizz…
Although I'm sure no-one here ever copied tapes :rolleyes: , does anyone actually know of someone being prosecuted "back in the day" (to quote a Kizza) -
Punch up! Bruce Everiss mauled by the internet over why Imagine collapsed.I couldn't see this posted here so I thought I would post it. It kept me amused for at least half an hour. Bruce Everiss on his blog claims piracy br…
... Everiss on his blog claims piracy brought down Imagine software but ... .bruceongames.com/2008/03/25/piracy-imagine-software-and-the-megagames ... -
BruceonGamesI've been reading [url=http://www.bruceongames.com/]Bruce Everiss' Blog[/url] ever since the imagine ding-dong, here's what he says on the subject i…
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Do DVD menus spoil anyone elses viewing ?Many a time have i bought or rented a film or TV series and i haven't previously seen. After navigating the usually anti piracy bits you are then sho…
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Effectiveness of the Knock-Off Nigel campaignAnybody seen the Knock-Off Nigel anti-piracy campaign? Two adverts: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbqBPmInjQ&feature=related[/url] [url]http…
... the Knock-Off Nigel anti-piracy campaign?
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Talents' Zkull???I've just been reading the Format, Jamming & Piracy article published in ZX Computing Monthly - September 1986. The [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.o…
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pirate bay questionI know theres an ongoing piracy hoohaa going on. has it been killed as ive just tried 3 bookmarks (that normally work) and all i get is "Could not co…
I know theres an ongoing piracy hoohaa going on. has it been killed as ive just tried 3 bookmarks (that normally work) and all i get is "Could not connect to caching server" -
A tax on violent games?[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/4968581/Tax-violent-video-games-tobeat-knife-crime-says-Damiola-Taylor…
... effect other than probably increasing piracy. Mr Taylor, who is a ... -
SPOT+SPEX magazine index update"This is precisely the sort of thing that no-one ever believes!" Firstly, a correction to the previous announcement. When I said "adding another 40 …
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Attn: PS2 Hard drive ownersIf you're having trouble getting a particular game to run from your PS2's hard drive (having tried the inbuilt HD Loader fixes, of course), then the …
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More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... to the console manufacturer, makes piracy much harder. Trouble is, since ... -
Digital rot - the modern DRM scourge[B]A place for History[/B] I love WOS. Completely love it. It is completely crazy in its scale and is the best of its kind. I love that games have s…
... download-only media - X% less piracy == 100% less legacy[/I][/INDENT ...