Death!

Due to increasing paranoia about getting sued, we are destroying MacinTricks. Yes, it only had a life of a few months; they were happy months. All directories will be "de-rezzed," as they say in Tron. The domain will be open to public purchase. Besides, we're college students who believe in ad-free content... as long as it's not expensive. And it was getting expensive.

As they also say in Tron: "[O]ur spirit remains in every program we design for this computer." That was our motivation for creating MacinTricks; it was not designed to blantantly thumb our noses at copyright law. It was created to educate the public about software that made Macintosh great. It was to honor the genius of programmers and designers whose works have been forgotten. We will still faithfully keep all physical disks and archived programs with the hope that one day no one will care.

To reiterate, we have not been sued or been ordered to shut down. We are doing this voluntarily for the following reasons:

• hosting & domain fees were getting rudely expensive
• our group dwindled down to one person who was responsible for maintenance
• we have to finish college sometime

In closing, we still advocate the proliferation of archived and abandoned software. It is impossible to stop new archives from appearing, even after existing ones have been shut down. We still feel that companies and copyright holders are irrationally preventing the educational value of examining software for which they no longer receive royalties.

Zeros and Ones