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14.Jun.2000 Alive Mediasoft activities
Since we warned on May 26th against buying Goal 2000 from Alive Mediasoft, more and more of their dubious activies are coming to light.

First KDH Datentechnik stopped on May 27 reselling all products of Alive Mediasoft.

On June, 1st Darkage Software released a public letter to all distributors not to buy "Extreme - Visual FX Generator" from Alive Mediasoft becuase ALive Mediasoft has not paid them. In an article dated June 10th, Fun Time World gave the following pictures as proof that Alive Mediasoft has been selling pirated software.

SeaSide: Alive Mediasoft and APC&TCP versions
PinBall Brain Damage: Alive Mediasoft & APC&TCP versions

Warnings of pirated software have appeared from MotionStudios and Epic Marketing.

Today, Alfred Knoetig from Alf`s Corner in his rewsletter:
"Finally, everyone has seen the light! After ALIVE wanted to compensate me for damages they sent me software. I was surprised to se that about half of what they sent was pirated. Alive Mediasoft was selling pirated software! Proof was found at the convention. Check out www.funtime-world.de."

At the Website of Dietmar Eilert, the author of GoldED, we found the following warning:
"Alive Mediasoft - 6/2000 - FRAUD WARNING
Amiga users have reported that Alive Mediasoft (UK) are manufacturing and selling unlicensed copies of GoldED Studio 6 on CD-R. The disks are sold with a note inside saying people were to use their serial number because they were waiting for a batch of new registration cards for GoldED to come in. Please be warned that Alive Mediasoft has no distribution license for GoldED 6 and that a GoldED 6 CD purchased from Alive Mediasoft may be stolen property for which neither the author nor the regular distributors have received payment. If in doubt, please get back to us with the serial number you were issued. Alive Mediasoft has been contacted to resolve this issue, but has failed to respond as requested before a given deadline. Customers who have purchased a GoldED Studio 6 CD from Alive Mediasoft are adviced to contact Alive and demand a refund."

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