Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!sbmueller 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 Article-I.D.: watmath.14086 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 Lines: 54 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Na na na naaa" - The Beatles Amiga (TM?) "Who Ha, Whoha" - FGTH This space // Bizarre/Design "Aah, aah" - Queen currently // Twisted/Fate under \\ // DY/DX "Has anyone seen my marbles?" construction. \// Body/Fisher - SBMUELLER@WATMATH.UUCP Freak --------------------------------------------@-#$--!@#$--$----#$%^&* parity error