Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!jack!man!crash!pnet01!adamsd From: adamsd@pnet01.CTS.COM (Adams Douglas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: software piracy/copy protection Message-ID: <1362@crash.CTS.COM> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 13:17:45 EDT Article-I.D.: crash.1362 Posted: Fri Jul 10 13:17:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:48:13 EDT Sender: news@crash.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon, CA Lines: 20 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.