Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!osu-eddie!elwell
From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A dream about breaking copy protection !
Message-ID: <2782@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 21:51:00 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.2782
Posted: Fri Dec 26 21:51:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 03:40:10 EST
References: <161@tiger.Princeton.EDU> <459@zaphod.UUCP>
Reply-To: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Organization: The Ohio State University, CIS Dept.
Lines: 19
Keywords: copy protection


In the long run, copy protection doesn't work because of one simple fact:
Anything that one person can put together, no matter how devious, someone
else can take apart, especially if the second person is smarter than the
first.  

Remember, breaking protection only has to be done once, and there are people
who do it professionally.  Now... do you feel safe?

Better to make a product that people WANT to buy at a price they are willing
to pay.  I don't endorse software piracy, but neither do I endorse making
life miserable for your customers.

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Computers will never replace the			Clayton Elwell
wastebasket when it comes to			Elwell@Ohio-State.ARPA
streamlining office work.		   ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!elwell
----------------------------------------------------------------------