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From: sbmueller@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
Message-ID: <14086@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 21:54:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 21:54:21 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 04:45:46 EDT
References: <240@uscacsc.UUCP> <6375@eddie.MIT.EDU> <451@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: sbmueller@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stephan Mueller)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <451@leah.Albany.Edu> mreed@leah.Albany.Edu ( Mike Reed) writes:
>
>  I know now what my next program is going to be. It's going to 
>unprotect, and subsequently delete, every file on every storage device
>attached to the machine it's run on. THEN i'll name it something cute,
>like "DPAINT III beta", and upload it to one of those &@_^^#%* boards.

Warning: wrist-slapping ahead.
Disclaimer: I didn't see no smiley, so I assume you mean it.

Trojan horses are not a new idea.  The MS-DOS world (for once :-)
is ahead of us (we?) Amigans.  Anybody got a copy of ARC v5.14 for
their PC?  Suffice it to say that people get more pissed off by
having their entire hard disk erased than by any form of copy-protection
(except of course if the copy protection involves erasing their hard disk :-).
Yeah, sure, you're only gonna upload it to slime boards.  Some slime is going
to put it on a disk with public domain stuff, and the rest of us will have to
deal with it too.
Also, despite all the EA bashing, nobody's gonna tell me DPAINT ain't a great
program.  Is it fair to associate EA with disk trashing? (I mean, when it
isn't their fault :-)

End of wrist-slap zone.  You may now resume your reading.

BTW I have opinions on copy protection.  I even have some points I believe
haven't been mentioned before.  I am, however, not going to inflict them on
anyone.  (Just thot you'd like to know :-)  

Other irrelevant facts (which I just have to mention):
I get all my software from Fred Fish.  Thanks Fred.
As soon as I start my next work term, Perry and others are getting mail from
me. (Yes, with checks in the envelopes)

Given quantity of :-)'s in this posting, mayB I shud x-post to rec.humor?

Have a nice day.
>
>	Hack
>	 +
>      Destroy
       ^^^^^^^
I always thot it was Hack & Slash.

APD: ||~
(all purpose disclaimer: Or Not)

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