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From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A dream about breaking copy protection !
Message-ID: <2783@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 21:55:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 26 21:55:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 03:41:04 EST
References: <161@tiger.Princeton.EDU> <1366@nicmad.UUCP> <107@mas1.UUCP>
Reply-To: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Organization: The Ohio State University, CIS Dept.
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In article <107@mas1.UUCP> jda@mas1.UUCP (James Allen) writes:
>"Every copy protection has been broken."
>Oh yeah?  Can anyone show me how to copy a Macintosh "SoftLok" diskette?
>
>	James D. Allen

I've done it.  The thing to remember is that to break a copy protection
scheme, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO DUPLICATE THE ORIGINAL.  It's actually
usually much easier to modify the program itself so that it no longer
cares if you've got the original or not.  This lets you run things off of
hard disks, RAMdisks, network file servers, and other non-stone-age
storage devices.

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