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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: software copying and protection (a personal opinion)
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 16:41:46 EDT
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> 
> It's especially noteworthy that you acknowledge that making copying
> difficult is a major impediment to piracy, and that one way of doing
> this is with a necessary and hard-to-copy manual.  That might discourage
> user-friendly software, but perhaps it's better than copy protection
> (which nobody likes, even when they understand the justification).
> -- 
> D Gary Grady
> Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706

I once saw a manual that was done in two colors, the text was your standard
black and why but the examples (with the key information) were light blue.
This had the effect of making the manual uncopyable with existing 
xerographic technology. Copiers still have problems with this but it
is not as difficult as it once was. I thought it quite ingenius at the time.

--Chuck
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