Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!mind!tiger!wei From: wei@tiger.Princeton.EDU (P Wei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: A dream about breaking copy protection ! Message-ID: <161@tiger.Princeton.EDU> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 12:17:45 EST Article-I.D.: tiger.161 Posted: Fri Dec 12 12:17:45 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 23:25:36 EST Distribution: net Organization: EE, Princeton University Lines: 16 Keywords: copy protection I use some comercial software packages at home and at work. Somebody may not care about putting a key disk in drive A every time he wants to start up the program. One night, I had the following dream: Why bother to put copy protection on the program.? What ever the protection scheme is, there must be a starting program to do the key checking and to load the main program. Isn't every experienced assembly programmer able to 'read' through the starting codes and to 'patch' those codes in order to run the program directly from the hard disk ? By 'patch', I mean to change the code in such ways as either 'bypassing' to think the checking is passed. It is a matter of time ! Maybe one can find a student ( stupid enough !) to do it. SO, WHY COPY PROTECTION ? HP WEI wei@princeton.UUCP