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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Summary: Amiga owners are not the worst offenders
Message-ID: <460@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 21:10:26 GMT
References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4929@alvin.mcnc.org> <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Let me tell you all a little story....
 [comments about seeing games with copyprotection bypassed]
>After seeing this I decided then and there that my company would never produce 
>an Amiga product.  I've never seen something like this in the MSDOS or Unix
>world.  Piracy, yes.  Piracy on this kind of scale -- people writing boot
>loaders to specifically crack protection?!  This was my first experience, 
>and I was horrified.
 [more comments deleted]
>Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
>Public Access Data Line: [+1 312 566-8911], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910]
>Macro Computer Solutions, Inc.		"Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"

You should see how much of this goes on in the MSDOS world.
Remember, there are more of them than there are of us and they have been
hacking at breaking copy protection longer than we have.

Summary: Not selling Amiga programs as a result of a single encounter with
pirates is foolish.  Find out how bad the situation really is (by checking
users of other systems as well) before damning the Amiga group.

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