Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!vax135!cjp From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Look up a word in the manual" copy protection Message-ID: <1819@vax135.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 19:48:15 EDT Article-I.D.: vax135.1819 Posted: Mon Jul 13 19:48:15 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 02:11:34 EDT References: <4807@sgi.SGI.COM> <6816@g.ms.uky.edu> <1812@vax135.UUCP> <294@l5comp.UUCP> Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 38 Summary: I still say it's ok In article <294@l5comp.UUCP> scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes: >In article <1812@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes: >>equipment. It doesn't take anything like two minutes if you know where >>your manual is to start with. Think of it as a soft dongle (pardon my > >Obviously you've never misplaced a manual, or had it sprout legs. "Were is my >XXX manual?" "Uh, I borrowed it Scott and it's at home, sorry..." Or how about >you took the manual home and left it there? I have had to scrabble around for the manual a time or two. I learned to keep better track of it. I don't have any use for the manual elsewhere than where my Amiga is, so they don't get separated. I don't lend out my manual. They might lose it, or make a copy or something. If I were running a software company, I'd make allowance for catastrophic loss of the key manual. Like, send back the original disk and I'd return a complete replacement. Keeping track of the returned disks' serial numbers would protect me from abuse by potential "manual breeders". >I obey the law, I have no bootleg software on any of my Amiga disks. Why should >I be treated like a criminal and forced to pass a litmus test everytime I Nobody wants to be treated like a potential criminal. Not you or I, and especially not the REAL criminal. Can you think of a non-insulting way for a dumb piece of magnetic material and a dumb sheaf of pages to distinguish between us and the criminals? If you don't test *something*, the criminals get away clean. (I'd have said "scott-free", but in deference to the replyee, I refrain. :-) :-)) It's like locking your house and car -- a determined thief will get past those locks, but most people agree that the locks are worth the trouble nonetheless. Enough -- -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp "Docking complete... Docking complete... Docking complete..."