CompuServe Messages

If it's just a player, then you don't have Snipit to do grabs ;-). I think there'll be even more cry for common file formats soon. We already had a discussion of this in CDROM forum a while back. Yes, quite a few companies keep their formats secret. Others publish their file specs (especially the gov't, it seems). My argument at the time was that the secretive companies were denying themselves more sales to Amiga/ST/etc owners. I felt/feel that people would not copy the data, but would write access programs to get at it… which would mean more disc sales for title makers. I got the impression (perhaps wrong) that the big money was not about keeping the data secret, but in keeping their search engines (programs) secret. But yeah, a full 600 meg of data can be a bunch of work to create. Still, would you be in any worse position than any program creator? Until Thor/etc, 600 meg is too much to copy (as Steve said). Certainly a lot to think about on this subject.