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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
Message-ID: <1654@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 17:30:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1654
Posted: Wed Jul 15 17:30:39 1987
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In article <1234@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
>1) All copy protection schemes can be broken.  I noticed that Silent
>Service was there -- wasn't that copy protected so well that the
>original didn't work?

Yeah, the cracked copy probably works better than the original.  This is
the kind of thing that really rankles my ass.  That pirate bbs had
a cracked copy of SoundScape 1.4.  I've been trying to backup my
legit copy for months with everybodies copy routine with no success.
I'm scared stiff that I'll be doing something great on it or be planning
to demo it to a large crowd just as the disk bytes the dust.  And here's
some pirates that have it broken.  Do I have to go to someone like them
to get piece of mind for my compositions?  SoundScape is not a game
program.  If you don't have a MIDI interface, a keyboard and/or synth,
and THE MANUAL, it's not very useful.  Star Wars copy-protection on a
program like that is nothing but pure irritation.

>2) I didn't see either the Lattice or the Manx compiler in that list.
>Perhaps that's because they're unusable without the documentation, and
>the documentation is much too difficult to duplicate.

AHA! Developers please note!  But at the same time, creating a game program
that needs documentation just for the sake of needing documentation makes
for some pretty dull games.  Fortunately for me, the Amiga is the first
computer I've owned (and I've had 8 or 9 in the last 8 years) that is
so much more useful in non-game ways, that I NEVER find the time or
inclination to play games on it.  


But really, mightn't it be a good idea to publish a list
of the top 10 NON-PIRATE boards?

Keith Doyle
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