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From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga pirating...
Message-ID: <1328@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 6 Dec 88 19:05:24 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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Lately I've been seeing a lot of writing about copying software  on  the
Amiga,  and  quite  frankly I'm getting worried. I just recently sold my
Atari ST, and one of the major reasons was  because  of  the  amount  of
pirating  that  is done on that computer. I'm part of a developers group
and we recently switched to programming for the Amiga. Is  the  pirating
problem  bad  on  the  Amy? I've seen the ST fizzle slowly as the pirate
BBS's added HD's. Has this recent trend snuck into the Amiga  community?
One that seemed more serious than that?

If  you  know a little about the ST market you wouldn't wonder twice why
FTL and other software  companies  are  heavily  copy  protecting  their
software.  Remember  that  FTL  is coming from the ST market; why should
they think things would be different with the Amy users.
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What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek
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