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From: adamsd@pnet01.CTS.COM (Adams Douglas)
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Subject: Re: software piracy/copy protection
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 13:17:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 13:17:45 1987
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As someone who is in the latter stages of writing an Amiga product, I found
myself asking myself many of the above arguments and questions. 

I am writing an astronomy application to be called Planetarium. It will be
distributed by Microillusions (Faery Tale, DynamiCad). I did not quit my
existing job to write it, and have not had too much trouble working it into my
free time. I intend it to be the best possible planetarium program on the
Amiga (I know about Galileo). Microillusions will copy protect it. And I will
probably add some simple "what is on page 29 of the manual" kind of
copy-protection. The reason is that MicroIllisions is still a small company
that is just beginning to be successful. They are trying very hard to get
ahold of the best Amiga programmers they can to produce the best possible
products (this is not put in as advertising hype). I sincerely believe that
with the low volume of product they have been able to put out so far, their
future would be put in serious jeopardy by releasing non-copy-protected
software. 

They believe that the Amiga is the best machine around, and although I am
otherwise indifferent to the topic of copy-protection, I feel strongly about
it in this case.