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From: prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Schemes
Message-ID: <441@tahoma.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 15:21:46 GMT
References: <346@mountn.dec.com>
Organization: The Boeing Co., BCA FSL, Seattle, WA
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From article <346@mountn.dec.com>, by shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara):
> In article <10442@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes...
>> 
>>Note that such protection schemes preclude installation of software
>>on hard disks, making backups, etc.  There are major software vendors
>>who have found other less obnoxious forms of copy protection, and if
>>you care about customer satisfaction you should consider those instead.
> 
> With the availability of less expensive hard disks, the increasing size 
> of //gs programs and the availability of faster machines either through
> accelerators or the hoped for //gs+,  the issue of not being able put 
> these programs on our hard disks should become a greater issue.  I'd 
> really like to see the Apple // community start to become vocal about 
> this.
> 
> Chris Shatara

Yesterday I purchased a copy of Risk (Electronic Arts).  It said it was for
//e,//c, & //gs, so I tried it on my //gs.  It included one 5.25 disk which
when I tried to boot it came back with an I/O error.  I then tried it in a
//e, which booted fine.  It came up in ProDos 1.4 which leads me to believe
it has some fancy copy protected modified ProDos.  This really erks me.  I
can't put it on a hard disk.  I can't even run it on a //gs, (which it claims
I can), just because some turkey company is scared I'll give it away.

I'm not an advocate of pirating.  I want to pay for my s/w so they can
afford to keep making more s/w.  But I want the s/w to work, too!!!  (plus
it would be nice if it didn't tie my hands and prevent me from using the s/w.)

Phil