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[Tulac]

http://qntm.org/owe

I got around 5000$

[Juni Ori]

35.81$ = 28.03e

In past I used to dl music, but not anymore.

[Tom Henrik]

Wow.... Appearantly my currect games collection (some 100 games) are worth close to 5000$. I never knew Alley Cat and Bouncing Babies were worth 50$ each. Amazing what you can find out

[A. J. Raffles]

Tom Henrik, on May 19 2006, 11:55 AM, said:

Wow.... Appearantly my currect games collection (some 100 games) are worth close to 5000$. I never knew Alley Cat and Bouncing Babies were worth 50$ each. Amazing what you can find out

Well, but weren't computer games actually quite expensive during the 1980s? So considering inflation and all that, it might not be that far from the truth, really...

[Tom Henrik]

Well, if you happen to own the original floppy of Bouncing Babies and it's package, I'll admit that a collector might buy it for something like 50$ (or more), but an archive alone? Wouldn't be worth 5 cents even.

[A. J. Raffles]

I think the point isn't how much it would be worth today, but how much it would have sold for if you had bought it.

[DeathDude]

Whoa got about $2397.6 for video games, no clue on my music stash though as I don't know the hours and such it must be worth a lot must have about oh 80-90 cd's.

[taikara]

Mine's about $100.00

I guess according to that guy, I'm a sucker who actually buys stuff.

I have downloaded maybe 5 games from AB - Enclosure (freeware), UFO: EU, and the rest were from the KQ series - which I actually did buy, and still have, so I didn't count them.

I know some will say that downloading games even if you already own them is still piracy (and legally, they'd be right), but hey, I don't have a 5 1/2 floppy with which to install them anymore. Besides, the premise of the site was whether you had paid for them.

Most of that came from music people send me. I don't actually tend to seek out mp3s very often, myself, I usually just rip them from CD's I've bought so I can listen to them on my comp.

[Aristharus]

I don't even want to know! I have movies, TV series, games...
And I have some 8000 mp3s. Pretty many of them I have ripped myself from original cds I own, though, so they're completely legal, I think.
I own about 150 original CDs. Some burned ones, too... 5-10 maybe.

[Shrek]

Aristharus, on May 19 2006, 05:49 PM, said:

I don't even want to know!

Neither do I...

I want to keep my "ignorant pirate" status

(well, I don't have as much as Aristharus, but I do have half a dozen movies, a few music albums - some of them I own the original - and a ton of games... ops, I hope nobody from the "right side of the law" reads this )

[A. J. Raffles]

Just after I discovered AB, I downloaded the Space Quest series (that's something I completely missed out on back in the days; all the games I owned were LucasArts games) and perhaps ten or twelve other games - which is actually quite a lot if you think about it. But now I'll only download something if it's something like Laser Light - a shareware game which I always wanted and meant to register, but to be quite honest, I was put off by the shipping cost which would have been more than the cost for the actual game...
On the whole, I think I'm happier with freeware, though, simply because I feel better knowing that what I'm doing is legal.

By the way, sorry if this is a stupid question, but how exactly would anyone pirate TV series? By recording them on videotape?

[Himmler]

damn i have alot of music

55759.62   ..it must be something i wrote wrong...

[Don Andy]

Got about 7000$ but I only entered vague numbers. I have so much scattered around I only typed the stuff in I could remember. I'm pretty sure I have a lot more TV seasons than I actually entered. And number of video games....oh well I don't really have the time to count all of them.

[Tulac]

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By the way, sorry if this is a stupid question, but how exactly would anyone pirate TV series?

You can download them off the net too, and it's illegal, and most of the popular shows are available legally on DVDs...

[Blood-Pigggy]

$35,843

  That's mostly from all the Abandonia games.