Re: [stella] The sad story about my Atari 2600 TV format conversions

Subject: Re: [stella] The sad story about my Atari 2600 TV format conversions
From: "Chris Larkin" <clarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:40:07 -0800
Ken Love from Activision said his lawyers are going to contact Randy... so I
think Randy's run with some copyrighted information is coming to a halt...

--Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Saunders" <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [stella] The sad story about my Atari 2600 TV format
conversions


> At 12:58 AM 12/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >If you would do business with him right now, you will soon find
> >out who he is. At the moment there are 19 TV conversion on his
> >page. And if he removes the conversions, I feel no reasons
> >anymore to go against him.
>
> Here it is:
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/hozervideo/atari/carts/conversions.html
>
> Now, I've only had positive experiences dealing with Randy.  It seems
> really out of character for him to act this way.  I can only imagine he's
> doing this out of spite because the two of you got into some kind of spat
> over something.  What happened between you two??
>
> As for legal recourse, the bottom line is that these are hacks so you
can't
> really claim copyright for what is 99% someone else's program.  On the
> other hand, legally speaking, Randy shouldn't even be allowed to sell
> anything but homebrew originals, but Hozer Video has a long history of
> being actively ignored by those who might care about it.
>
>
>
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