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From: hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it!
Message-ID: <1636@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 03:30:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1636
Posted: Wed Jul  8 03:30:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 02:58:52 EDT
References: <4826@sgi.SGI.COM> <4238@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: hsgj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 43
Keywords: piracy, copy protection, bungled burglary
Summary: EA Fools

In article <2478@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes:
>[...] I don't buy the argument that copy protection
>makes games unusable (unless it is STUPID protection, i.e., if it
>
>>I know of at least 10 people who will not buy another EA product, no
>>matter how good, because of the experience they have had with the
>>existing products, and their frustration and anger at products which
>>are annoying to use.
>
>[..]  What is annoying about having copy protection on your
>copy of Marble Madness?  I mean, do you seriously expect to
>play that game so much that the disk fails?  (I certainly haven't.)
>You can get a replacement from EA if it does fail.  What more do you
>want?
>			-Mitsu

BULL SH-T, to be exceedingly polite.  I owned a C-64 for several years.
Loading Electronic Arts games on that machine, particularly "Archon"
took forever, made annoying clicking noises with the disk drive, and
ruined the disk alignment by banging the disk head around.  Approximate
load time was 4 minutes.  I viewed (but did not take) a pirated version
of Archon that had KwikLoad installed.  This version, which of course
was the same game, took only 20 seconds (!!!) to load, did not make
annoying sounds on the disk, and did not ruin the drive.  There goes your
argument that copy protection is unobtrusive and harmless.

To get back to the Amiga realm, I bought Adventure Constrution Set when I
first got my machine.  The *Worst* port in the history of porting, this
game looks just like the C-64 version.  Yes 320 by 200 with dismal tinny
muzak and scrub graphics.  And I paid $35 for this trash?  Ahh but the
copy protection is the best part.  The stupid game won't go on my RAM:
or my Hard disk.  Ohh, but I thought copy protection from EA was unobtrusive?

I don't buy any more EA software.  Who needs something that locks you into
floppies when you have over $1800 worth of expansion hardware?

Bah!

-- Dan Green

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