LeeT
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Post by LeeT on Feb 23, 2005 15:51:56 GMT -5
Rather than go rushing in with legal threats, he should have spent some time exploring the site and forums - He then would have realised (as he probably has since) that WoS is harmless and non-profit making.
Obviously the huge negative reaction he got has shocked him and he is trying to spin the situation.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 23, 2005 16:51:17 GMT -5
I suppose at the end of the day - if the guy owns the software he owns the software he's within his rights to ask for it to be removed.
Granted I don't think he did his research (!) and piled in with a standard "cease and desist" stock letter and came across a bit stoopid (although dick splash sounds better!).
I wonder though, would having emulatable spectrum images up on a site for free effect sales of, say a souped up PDA version?
What do people think? Food for thought.
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Post by Philip Kendall on Feb 23, 2005 18:43:32 GMT -5
I think it depends a lot on what you're trying to market, or more directly, on what your viable target market is. For a well known game (eg a Tetris clone), you've got a nice big market for it. For a Nodes of Yesod remake, your market's much smaller, and basically made up of (ex-)Spectrum owners.
The "problem" with Spectrum owners is that they're probably more computer-savvy than Joe Public (they've probably been using computers for at least 15 years, after all), and as such they'll know about emulators and where they can download Spectrum games for free from. If the remake's basically not much more than improved graphics and sound, I can't see many people paying for that if they can get something very similar for free.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 23, 2005 20:04:35 GMT -5
Very true.
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