COPYING utilities were banned from last weekend's Amstrad Computer Show at the instigation of Amstrad itself. Organiser Database Exhibitions wrote to all show exhibitors at the end of September saying that "products designed to breach the copy right laws by producing pirate copies of a wide variety of software titles should not be available at our exhibition.” Database defines this son of product as those allowing a program to be frozen for copying purposes, disc to disc copiers and tape to tape copiers. Products which can do one or more of these, but not as their prime function. ”are usually quite acceptable.” It seems the relatively drastic action was taken in response to a threat from Amstrad to pull out of the show "We were getting a lot of hassle and stick from people who write software under licence for us,” says Mike Mordecai. software sales manager for Amstrad. "We could not be seen to be supporting companies who sell products that hack open other people's programs.” Database has the right to refer to the show as the Official Amstrad Computer User Show, and the message seems to have been that if the ban wasn't initiated it would become decidedly unofficial, with the presence of Amstrad itself in doubt Mordecai doesn't accept that there is any legitimate use for copying devices and programs. "Personally I feel these sort of devices shouldn't be allowed on the market.” he says, and points out that only a very small percentage of sales of, say the 6128 represent users upgrading from the 464. One of the companies affected has, however, reacted strongly to the ban. Gerry Bassingthwaighte of Mirage Microcomputers says he talked to Database about the matter after the previous Amstrad show in June, and was told there would be no difficulty. He denies that his product is a tool for piracy, pointing out that it needs to be present when the copied program is loaded back. and. therefore, acts as a sort of dongle, and says he is currently investigating the possibility of suing Database. "They decided in June, but only told us about it at the end of September. No-one from Database will tell people why we re not there, and what we want to try and tell people is we're not out of business." Popular Computing Weekly (1986-10) | ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ A voir aussi sur CPCrulez , les sujets suivants pourront vous intéresser... |
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Page créée en 200 millisecondes et consultée 686 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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