Destruction of piracy as a class (last-1)

ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»

From Andrew Savichev To All 14 March 1998


Hi, All!
I closed the topic, but I considered it impolite not to answer Sergei
and Tim.
I answer.

> AS> Create conditions under which it is more profitable to “give out” your programs, and
> AS> not to steal other people’s!
SN>How? ;))
The power should be with the authors and traders, not with the pirates!
I don’t know how to achieve this, but otherwise the Spectrum will collapse :(
The only hope is to bring the pirates to their senses, including by campaigning through
all available media. “You can’t break a butt with a whip!”

> AS> The real mafia lives according to transparent and clear laws and is organized
> AS> is better than other states! No one can break the laws of the mafia, from ordinary
> AS> members to the most senior functionaries. Everyone knows what and for what
> AS> he will get, both good and bad;)
>
SN>According to knowledgeable people, we do not have a real mafia. There is organized crime.
Our mafia is worse than all the others - but I won’t talk about it!
I want to live some more. :). And you won't be able to convince them. A living example - how many
TY>programs on PC did you buy?
I paid more than 800 rubles for pirated compacts, on one of themthere was some kind of software for the Spectrum. But I’m tired of feeding pussy
pirates and I didn’t go into the wilds of Vyndos, where you can drink three times
as much and be disappointed.
And the quality of all this junk is such that it would be better for me to buy
author’s software from the authors of Spectrum.
Unfortunately, on the virtual Spectrum IT IS COMPLETELY UNAVAILABLE! :(
Spectrum and pisi cannot be compared. Software for pisi is still written in the
West. Therefore, the West suffers from piracy.
Software is not written for Spectrum in the West, therefore we suffer from piracy
Yes, I am a preacher of “double standards of morality”, kill me for this.
But first remember that no one in the world gives a damn about whether Russia will collapse or not, and the rich in our countries don’t care whether the poor and beggars die of hunger or not. Therefore, the “double standard” in morality is a world practice,
alas :(
>
> AS> Do you think that everything is explained by the meager ration for software and its
AS> quality? That is, if CV had not proudly soared alone, then it would have wouldn’t
AS> gnaw them all at once? But isn’t this
> AS> a delusion? After all, the more wolves there are, the fewer guns there are around
AS> each sheep, and dogs too.
TY>And the more sheep.
Wrong!only the food/teeth ratio. The wolf will choose the flock where the ratio
is greater. You can break any door, but they will climb to where the door is weaker
and the loot is the same or more ;)
>
> >> On what? On the Black Crow? Or on a couple of new programs a year?
> AS> Just think about it, what’s the point of working hard for six months for $100?
>None.
That’s why there are “no” authors!
Historically, there weren’t any. There have always been freebies from the West and individual
attempts to prove to themselves and others that “...the Russian land can give birth to its own Platonov and
fast minds.”
And this applies not only to Spectrum software. This applies to
everything in Russia except weapons, and then the latter only after the Second World War of 1941-45,
when the STUPID RUSSIAN RULES finally realized that you can’t drown your enemies in human blood
your people.
>
TY>Andrey, this is _unreal_. You know it yourself. He won't pay. The maximum can
TY>be counted on 10% of the total number (a very positive forecast).
Tim, we don’t know the total number of Spectrumists, but we know that
if you can’t earn $180 per person per month, then in Russia
_now_, no one will do such work, unless out of great
love for Spectrum, and then only if a person has other sources of income
(parents, a rich woman, shares, generating income, etc.) so as not to die of hunger.
Ifa person, having worked on his uncle, comes home like a squeezed lemon, then he will not be able to do anything in the sense of creative work, he needs to restore his strength before the next “sucking out of him the next portion of blood” by our new “bloodsuckers”: 9

> AS> and not a hacker and a pirate, it will cost him more than $800. After all, most
> AS> hackers can write software themselves!
>A common misconception. Breaking is not building.
No, it’s not a misconception. A programmer by himself cannot create anything!
But if there is an idea, and in addition to the idea, the game requires a detailed “scenario”,
graphics, music, then he will be able to code it EFFECTIVELY.
He is a coder - that’s all! And besides, he needs ready-made algorithms (programs)
of those things that he has not had to “encounter in life.”

> AS> But they don’t do this precisely because of the impossibility of earning money
> AS> “by honest labor.” It’s not like breaking down or building, it will take three times less time
> AS>, or even 10 times. So it turns out that “we used to become commissars,
> AS> and now we become bandits” :(
>And there will be more money.
And this depends precisely on the MACROECONOMY, i.e. on the conditions
in which we all find ourselves.
Pirates are “in power” - that means hackers have
more than the authors, there are few games, but they break them instantly.
Traders are “in power” -the authors have more than hackers, there are many games,
they break them more slowly.
>
>No. It was meant that when the last author disappears, the last
pirate will disappear.
The last pirate disappears when the last broken
author's work is sold.
Everyone will disappear in this order.
Authors (ALREADY ALMOST DISAPPEARED!!! :(( ) -> traders -> hackers -> pirates -> users.
When the last user disappears the time will come collectors.
This will mean that SPECTRUM is DEAD! to do.
All the markets are occupied!!! Who the hell needs them there?
There are already different scales and a different scope!
Neither Spectrum authors, nor Spectrum traders, nor Spectrum
pirates WHAT DO ANYONE NEED!
Only users are needed from Spectrum, and then only to buy
all sorts of used junk !
>
>A pirate - why not? Andrey, don’t equate your moral
principles with a pirate.
I have normal moral principles, for those who don’t understand - I’m a
practical person, I just SERVE Spectrum with DOG-like devotion and
I don’t want him to die soon.death!!!

>Piracy _can_ be greatly weakened. Physically. And by legal methods.
>As is done all over the world. We still have a long way to go before this.
I see only one thing: the desire by any means as soon as possible to ADD SPECTRUM. And then, the state(s) don’t give a damn about Spectrum :(

> AS> I know a simpler way... this is my project SpectrumNetSoft,
TY>which will give pirates a lot of new software for free.
It will take away their buyers and they will be gone, them and not Spectrum
for which they are digging a hole. The fact is that they will give away software and, moreover,
"for pirated prices" and even lower ones are N-traders, not pirates.
There is indeed a danger that N-traders will begin to be physically
dealt with:(
Therefore, you need to successfully choose the moment when the pirates have already weakened,
but some number of users will still remain.

> AS> but unfortunately, it looks like it will destroy traders along with the pirates, and
> AS> in They don’t want N-traders, but it’s a shame!
Do you know why? Most of them are also realists. And they feel sorry for their money.
Nobody needs their money, but they don’t feel sorry for money, but for time.
Then let those who don’t feel sorry for time to save Spectrum
become N-traders.

With respect, Andrey Savichev, coordinator. SNS