Date   : Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:11:24 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Mark Cooke <ee2015@...>
Subject: Re : ROM Images and Acorn

Hi All,

Well, I was just considering providing a directroy on my ftp site, which
you need to 'site group beeb' 'site gpass password' to have access.  Only
people I know have beebs (or I trust :-) ) get to know the password.

> I think the solution mentioned of encrypting with a password would work.
> Although there still is the problem of whether you're then making a "derived
> work" available to people which is also illegal I think.

This would not encrypt the files, but make them unavailable for general
access.  Possibly skirting on illegal though.

> I tried to contact acorn about this (well, the Basic rom and the OS infact)
> matter well over a year ago and was fobbed off from person to person. When I
> finally found the (supposedly) correct person to talk to (David Bell as I
> recall) I received a reply saying that I should state my intentions clearly
> and they'd think about things. I never received a reply to my 'statement' or
> to any of my subsequent queries. Pretty hopeless really.

Do you have a contact address for anyone at Acorn.  Maybe if we get a
concerted effort together something will happen.

> As for the fact that distributing this code isn't going to effect acorn - in
> their eyes it will. They have a market for BBC emulators that they are
> currently exploiting (ie the !65Host or whatever it's called on the Arc).

Flame On :

Oh yeh.  People are going to buy a Risc PC to run their old beeb software on.
Right.  Even if this were so, do Acorn really sell such a small volume
that this is going to make a difference?  Last I heard, !65Host didn't run
on the Risc PC, and couldn't deal with many of the old beeb games.

Flame Off:

Mark

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