[Coco] Duplicating Copy-Protected Games (Z-89) (Was: Coco Digest , Vol 55, Issue 22)

[Charlie]

"Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote
in message news:200801141414.37379.gene.heskett at verizon.net...
> >
> You may think it sucks, and that is your right.  That however has nothing
to
> do with the legality of what Steve has asked.  Steve has just served a
> takedown notice on this list, and it would be best for all concerned to
honor
> that request & save Steve the requirement and the legal expense of a whole
> slew of takedown letters in the US Mails.  In case you aren't savvy,
> copyright violations are about US $90k per instance the last time I heard.
>
> FYI Steve, if I do have any of your games, they are still on the
cartridges
> they came in.

It does "suck". 20 years later it seems unreasonable. Now if the games were
being sold
I see it totally different. Like Nick's Pac-man, I would never share as long
as he is selling it.
If Steve's games are still being sold as was said, then where and how would
we find out about it?

It also "sucks" when the coco list is full of all this legal talk because
somebody just wanted to play Z89
after all these years.

Like I said the 1st time, legal or not.

I guess I'm going to get flamed for this, but I really think it's a shame.