Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!pyramid!batcomputer!hsgj 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 -- ARPA: hsgj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu UUCP: ihnp4!cornell!batcomputer!hsgj BITNET: hsgj@cornecorn