Comment Emulators vs Warez (Score 1) 214
I have been on the Computer Scene for more than 10 years. 18 to be precise. When I started it was all at 300 baud, Compuserve on Apple 2e's and Commodores. I was also in the Warez scene, and created one of the biggest piracyrings ever. I also have participated in the DEMO Scenez, Graphic and later on into the Emulation Scene.
I think that piracy is something everyone of us does, regardless. One of you must have borrowed a very good game form a friend and copy it to save a few bucks. I did piracy when I was young (and stupid) currently I own at least half the software that runs through my hands, not because I renegated or anything, just because I buy what I think it's worth. The emulation scene is one of the areas in the computer industry, that most piracy has existed ever. It is not the first time it happens, nor the last you will see.
What happened to the UltraHLE is nothing but typical when a product that is meant for testing results in an awesome idea. There are the people who do this for technical WOWNESS, others because they are too cheap to go out and buy a Nintendo 64 or Playstation.
I collect for example MAME Roms, because I loved that era of coin ups, and thouggh there are great games today outthere I do not like most of them. (Nothing like a good game of Mr. Do or Pacman..). I personally like the emulation scene because I find it fascinating to run Mario or Zelda, or Donkey Kong 3, or what not in my PC. I think people who create this kind of emulation software have to remember thatif you posted the release of a material you know that people will exploit it there. It might be bad, but some people just do not realize it. Any innocent soul that is not oriented to this, might listen to Aerosmith and think, Hmmm why buy the cd when I can record it on a tape... I dunno.. blah it happens the same with the PC and the Scenes we see around. I guess what I am trying to say is that piracy didn't pop out of no where or behind your back like a naughty green elf. It has been there for ages and it will be for more evenso.
We are the ones who forge the changes of the future, we make ideas that work for purposeful matters. As long as there are people, who BUY the software, or Cartridges of Nintendo or what not, it doesn't matter where they run. I personally will go and buy my Zelda, but I do nto want to play it on a console.. bah I have a twin P2-450, with Voodoo2... I want to run it there... and I will thanks to this emulators... Nintendo nor any opther house should worry about this, because it is what drives the future to them... Imagine that all this great games that are made for consoles can be eventually run on your PC... this is what people should be looking for. Not at the criminal side or the cheap side.
I explained in the beginning my background, notfor yo ual lto think I am a big pirate now... All the people who were with me in the Warez Scene, hold potential jobs, or are incredible wizards of technology. The availability of the amount of things we used to learn through this years let us be one of a kind on this industry. Now 20 years later, I look behind me, and I see that even what we used to do as a hobby, was bad yeah.. but I look forth now and it helps me see that all that we did has pushed technology forth and now we are enjoying of it.
Screw Pirates, keep doing this marvelous technology so that our generations and the next to come can live thorugh this moments that mark time and make people like you immortal.
Keep your fingers on the keyboard... :)
The Wombat
aka: Syntax Error, -=dPS=-
Gilberto J. Palau
gjpalau@kinergia.com
Reader of Slashdot, Ex-Pirate, and Technology Guru
I think that piracy is something everyone of us does, regardless. One of you must have borrowed a very good game form a friend and copy it to save a few bucks. I did piracy when I was young (and stupid) currently I own at least half the software that runs through my hands, not because I renegated or anything, just because I buy what I think it's worth. The emulation scene is one of the areas in the computer industry, that most piracy has existed ever. It is not the first time it happens, nor the last you will see.
What happened to the UltraHLE is nothing but typical when a product that is meant for testing results in an awesome idea. There are the people who do this for technical WOWNESS, others because they are too cheap to go out and buy a Nintendo 64 or Playstation.
I collect for example MAME Roms, because I loved that era of coin ups, and thouggh there are great games today outthere I do not like most of them. (Nothing like a good game of Mr. Do or Pacman..). I personally like the emulation scene because I find it fascinating to run Mario or Zelda, or Donkey Kong 3, or what not in my PC. I think people who create this kind of emulation software have to remember thatif you posted the release of a material you know that people will exploit it there. It might be bad, but some people just do not realize it. Any innocent soul that is not oriented to this, might listen to Aerosmith and think, Hmmm why buy the cd when I can record it on a tape... I dunno.. blah it happens the same with the PC and the Scenes we see around. I guess what I am trying to say is that piracy didn't pop out of no where or behind your back like a naughty green elf. It has been there for ages and it will be for more evenso.
We are the ones who forge the changes of the future, we make ideas that work for purposeful matters. As long as there are people, who BUY the software, or Cartridges of Nintendo or what not, it doesn't matter where they run. I personally will go and buy my Zelda, but I do nto want to play it on a console.. bah I have a twin P2-450, with Voodoo2... I want to run it there... and I will thanks to this emulators... Nintendo nor any opther house should worry about this, because it is what drives the future to them... Imagine that all this great games that are made for consoles can be eventually run on your PC... this is what people should be looking for. Not at the criminal side or the cheap side.
I explained in the beginning my background, notfor yo ual lto think I am a big pirate now... All the people who were with me in the Warez Scene, hold potential jobs, or are incredible wizards of technology. The availability of the amount of things we used to learn through this years let us be one of a kind on this industry. Now 20 years later, I look behind me, and I see that even what we used to do as a hobby, was bad yeah.. but I look forth now and it helps me see that all that we did has pushed technology forth and now we are enjoying of it.
Screw Pirates, keep doing this marvelous technology so that our generations and the next to come can live thorugh this moments that mark time and make people like you immortal.
Keep your fingers on the keyboard...
The Wombat
aka: Syntax Error, -=dPS=-
Gilberto J. Palau
gjpalau@kinergia.com
Reader of Slashdot, Ex-Pirate, and Technology Guru
