Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:26232 comp.misc:4321 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!jac423 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 References: <1334@leah.Albany.Edu> <6351@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 18 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. -- What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek nuclear fusion? I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@rachel.albany.edu