£1000 reward for anti-piracy tips (old magazine ad)

[Gorf]

Originally Posted by ViLXDRYAD

Here is the ultimate tip to stop piracy; make software for free

How about:
Make free software!
(and get paid for your work, as I do.)

[Leffmann]

Talk about being out of touch with the young generation. I wonder if they ever handed out a single reward...

[ViLXDRYAD]

Originally Posted by Gorf

How about:
Make free software!

this man knows, also for those who feel greedier a donate button would not do bad = )

[amiga_Forever]

Originally Posted by Raid27

In this 1990 comic-strip anti-piracy ad the "Federation Against Software Theft", organised by the "European Leisure Software Publishing Association" is offering a £1000 pound reward "for information leading to a prosecution and conviction" of pirate activities.

I knew piracy was a real problem even back then but I had no idea they put out bounties!

and guess what... Fast forward to today we STILL put out bounties,,,, but not to catch pirates, rather to find bugs in software

Nothing changes

I would have expected more people would be handing over stuff back then because well...who *wouldn't* want 1000 pounds.

[Jason H]

Ha, this is pathetic, and hilarious.

[AmigaRob]

The problem I have with that particular advert is that it assumes all copying and trading in an academic situation is going to be breaching copyrights, when at that time a lot of the exchanging was about development and involved completely open source and public domain software, shared expressly for the reason of educating on both the subject of the software and in software development.

There was another advert that focused car boot/market copiers working for a profit, and I do not have a problem with that as those people were making an generally un-taxed fortune thieving other people's work.