Wow, I've been rather productive today! Don't know how many messages I sent, but it's quite a few. Anyway, this just popped up in my mind. I think the main problem is the instant messaging sharing. I mean people who own cracked software and share them with friends, and those friends will certainly share it themselves. Thus you'll get a whole chain of people that is hard to stop. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Che" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Piracy of accessible software
Hi, regarding being on topic, I think this this is absolutely on topic. If we don't do something about the rampant piracy of accessible games out there, we are going to have a harder and harder time convincing developers to spend the time to develop quality games, and I am one of those developers along with several others on this list. If we can convince just a handful of these sites to not host this crap, we will be doing ourselves a great service in the long run. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Piracy of accessible software >I agree that a lot of Access Technology is real expensive. However, what we > here at Gw Micro have done to try and help the end user is come up with a > payment plan. This is good for someone who wants to purchase Window-Eyes > with their own money and cannot afford the total cost up front. Liam has > already very well stated why AT tends to be more expensive and so i will > not > get into that. Just know that it's not just AT which is real expensive. > Have > you seen the latest cost of Microsoft Office 2007 lately? How about > Microsoft MySQL for multiple Enterprise machines? What I'm saying is that > software, development, and support is not cheap. > > If you want to learn about the Window-Eyes payment plan, visit > www.gwmicro.com/lto where you can get all the details. > > We really need to get back on topic now. Many thanks. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos .. Co-Moderator | http://www.asmodean.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Talksina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:50 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Piracy of accessible software > > >> well, >> not to open a flame about this, but, talking about other >> blind-related software, they are really really really too expensive! >> I do not talk about games, that cost maximum 40 euro. And, that, for >> example, a user wanting to play a game, can use his/her money to buy >> the game, instead of... buying cigarettes, or something else that is >> damaging his health. >> But what, in my opinion, is too expensive, are other kind of >> softwares. Think about Jaws, Window-Eyes, Talks or MobileSpeak for >> mobile phones, Sapi5 synths (such as Loquendo)... >> Your discussion is valid for games, or small softwares (such as >> VoiceEmotion or PowerGramo, the voip assistants), goldwave, sound >> forge and so on >> But you lie to yourself if you say that you wouldn't desire to have >> free access to your computer or mobile phone, or, at least, to spend >> less money! Not to have to spend the double price because we are >> blind, for a device which is sold to sighted people with an accessible >> price >> Yes, they could develop something free in that case, too. There is a >> tool called NVDA for computers, and a Sapi5 called eSpeak, not high >> quality but open source and free >> but not for mobile phones >> In general, I am against software piracy, as it damages the >> alternative free or low-cost software, but I do not lie to myself: >> most of softwares we NEED, are a real theft. >> Think about what happened on eMule 2 years ago >> An anonymous user, having the machine on 24 hours a day, started to >> distribute a file called "nokia talks 2.xx IMEI key generator", which >> just contained an executable wich, once launched, destroyed all >> computer data: everything in hard disk, internal or external or >> partitions, was removed >> There is no possibility to get any proof on that, but many people >> thought (and think) this comes from Nuance, Talks producer, but >> writing this on the Internet, as there are no proof, could cause >> problems. So, as we say in Italy, "incarta e porta a casa". That is, >> literally translated, pack it and take it home. It means, take it as it >> is >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
