Harry Price (games programmer)
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Harry Price is a programmer for the ZX Spectrum. He became infamous in 1986 when a game he had programmed, called Crime Busters, published by IJK (a software house owned by the BBC) was alleged by Mastertronic to have been heavily based on pirated code from their own release Spellbound. Price initially denied the allegations but admitted stealing the code after Mastertronic threatened legal action[1]. IJK withdrew Crime Busters and a representative of the company stated "We're an old software house, five years old, and we're extremely upset that something like this could have happened when we launch our first Spectrum game."
Spectrum game enthusiasts have since claimed further examples of apparent plagiarism across virtually all of Price's games[2], but Crime Busters is the only one he has admitted as being pirated.
[edit] References
- ^ Sinclair User news. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
- ^ Harry Price page at Equin0x. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
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