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From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <1342@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 8 Dec 88 20:31:08 GMT
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In article <6351@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner) writes:
> Sounds like all the more reason to NOT copy protect.  A company spends all
> that time and money designing a copy protection scheme that a dedicated
> pirate will just eventually break anyway, and that frustrates (sp?) the
> ligitimate buyer.  So, what has the company in question gained in the long 
> run?  Nothing.  What has it lost?  The time and money (which gets passed on
> to the buyer - yet another reason for frustration for the ligitimate
> buyer...) spent developing Yet Another Useless Copy Protection Scheme.

Granted, it gives the crackers  insentive  to  crack  games  (but  maybe
they'd  be  writing  viruses  instead  :-) but there are many people who
don't have access to the pirate bulletin boards, or to cracked programs.
I  love  how  Rogue  kills  you  after  the  first  level  if you have a
illegitimate copy.
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