Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!rex!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!???? Message-ID: <12300@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 27 Jul 89 22:34:29 GMT References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4929@alvin.mcnc.org> <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <460@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 28 IMHO Companies complaining of copyright infringements & making tougher copy protection schemes & cracking programs becoming better & ... it's all silly The medium is inherently copyable. There is vast proof that lots of people won't pay for something they can get free. (What's the best kind of sex? free sex, of course ... er.. well.. sometimes anyway.. meet me in alt.sex if you want to continue this.) How do the software companies expect to make money with inherently copyable media for which they charge high prices, provide poor documentation or any of a whole raft full of other "features". For the record -- when I do see a good program I tend to buy it. And I'm grateful for the chance to demo a program before buying it, whether it be in my dealers showroom or at a friends house. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- "Amiga software is as good and as bad as PC software. The difference is <- that AmigaDOS waves bye-bye before it dies, while the PC just freezes."