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‎Consequences of software cracks for the CPC

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''This article is just a draft. Please improve it, if you think, it makes sense.''

Commercial software has to be paid by the user, who wants to use it on his computer. As usually it is possible to copy software from disc to disc or in another way, the user has the possibility not to pay for the software he uses but just to copy it from a special source. To prevent this behavoir software companies started to introduce copy protections during the 80ies.

'''Crackers''' are persons, who are disabling these copy protection mechanism in an illegal way to make commercial software copy-able again. In this way users are again able to get commercial software for free. As commercial software houses have a lot of costs and have to pay their programmers the sallary, they are not very happy about these crackers, as they are loosing money with them.

== Pro crackers ==

* Crackers are like modern "Robin Hoods": They steal from the bad rich capitalistic companies the money and distribute it to the good poor people.
* People, who are using cracked software, don't have the money to buy commercial software in any case - so it doesn't matter at all.
* As software is spreaded more widely, if it has been cracked, it becomes much more popular. This is also an advantage for the software company.

== Contra crackers ==

* Software companies have a lot of costs, their work is not for free. If people are using cracked software, the company are loosing money and can't keep the amount of employees and the level of quality.
* Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means, that a few customers are paying, so that other illegal guys can use things for free.
* In any way according to the law using "stolen" software is as illegal as using stolen material productions.

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		+	Anyway because of the exotic format of disks on CPC (the 3") even to have copied games could be somewhat expensive for a CPC user (even for a speccy +3 user) as a 3" disk could cost something like 3,5 euros equivalent (20Fr... perhaps 2£...)

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 This explain partly why Consoles producers (Sega and Nintendo mostly) were the winners of this era.
-Crackers were mostly active in france because CPC sold very well mostly only there (best selling 8 bit computer in France).
+Crackers were quite active in france because CPC sold very well mostly there (best selling 8 bit computer in France).
 It is to mention that C64 and ZX spectrum were far more sold around the world.
-Cracking was of course a nice way to get games for a few amount of money so it popularised those games.
+As said, cracking was of course a nice way to get games for a few amount of money so it popularised those games.
 But it also got sales far inferior to what it would have been possible.
 As a result, CPC got a lot of Speccy ports because it was even more a lesser market :
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 --very talented crackers.
-So CPC games were not always as good as they could be.
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	== Consequences of software cracks for the CPC ==		== Consequences of software cracks for the CPC ==
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		+	To be honest, Crackers were active on most 8-16bit home computers from the mid 80's generation.
		+	This explain partly why Consoles producers (Sega and Nintendo mostly) were the winners of this era.
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		+	Crackers were mostly active in france because CPC sold very well mostly only there (best selling 8 bit computer in France).
		+	It is to mention that C64 and ZX spectrum were far more sold around the world.
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		+	Cracking was of course a nice way to get games for a few amount of money so it popularised those games.
		+	But it also got sales far inferior to what it would have been possible.
		+	As a result, CPC got a lot of Speccy ports because it was even more a lesser market :
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		+	--less computers users.
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		+	--very talented crackers.
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		+	So CPC games were not always as good as they could be.

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-''This article is just a draft. Please improve it, if you think, it makes sense.''
+''This article is just a draft. Please improve it where you think it makes sense.''
-Commercial software has to be paid by the user, who wants to use it on his computer. As usually it is possible to copy software from disc to disc or in another way, the user has the possibility not to pay for the software he uses but just to copy it from a special source. To prevent this behavoir software companies started to introduce copy protections during the 80ies.
+Commercial software has to be paid for by the user who wants to use it on his computer. As it is usually possible to copy software from disc to disc or in another way, the user has the possibility of not paying for the software he uses but just copy it from a special source instead. To prevent this behaviour, software companies started to introduce copy protections during the 1980's.
-'''Crackers''' are persons, who are disabling these copy protection mechanism in an illegal way to make commercial software copy-able again. In this way users are again able to get commercial software for free. As commercial software houses have a lot of costs and have to pay their programmers the sallary, they are not very happy about these crackers, as they are loosing money with them.
+'''Crackers''' are persons who are illegally disabling these copy protection mechanisms in order to make commercial software copy-able again. In this way, users are again able to get commercial software for free. As commercial software houses have a lot of costs and have to pay the programmers' wages, they are not very happy about these crackers, as they are losing money due to them.
-== Pro crackers ==
+== Arguments pro crackers ==
-* Crackers are like modern "Robin Hoods": They steal from the bad rich capitalistic companies the money and distribute it to the good poor people.
+* Crackers are like modern "Robin Hoods": They steal software from the "bad rich capitalistic companies" and distribute it to the "good poor people".
-* People, who are using cracked software, don't have the money to buy commercial software in any case - so it doesn't matter at all.
+* People who are using cracked software don't have the money to buy commercial software anyway - so it doesn't matter at all.
-* As software is spreaded more widely, if it has been cracked, it becomes much more popular. This is also an advantage for the software company.
+* As software is spread more widely after it has been cracked, it becomes much more popular. This is also an advantage for the software company.
-== Contra crackers ==
+== Arguments contra crackers ==
-* Software companies have a lot of costs, their work is not for free. If people are using cracked software, the company are loosing money and can't keep the amount of employees and the level of quality.
+* Software companies have a lot of costs, their work is not for free. If people are using cracked software, the company is losing money and can't keep the amount of employees and the level of quality.
-* Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means, that a few customers are paying, so that other illegal guys can use things for free.
+* Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means that a few customers are paying so that other illegal guys can use things for free.
 * In any way according to the law using "stolen" software is as illegal as using stolen material productions.

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	* Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means, that a few customers are paying, so that other illegal guys can use things for free.		* Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means, that a few customers are paying, so that other illegal guys can use things for free.
	* In any way according to the law using "stolen" software is as illegal as using stolen material productions.		* In any way according to the law using "stolen" software is as illegal as using stolen material productions.
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		+	== Consequences of software cracks for the CPC ==
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