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From: milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Piracy & Quality (was "Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????")
Message-ID: <1522@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 16:36:22 GMT
References: <16030@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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> Sure, the publisher guarantees the media. So what? It's not
> like that's a big risk to them. There is a statistical percentage of disks
> that will be defective, and they lose no sales over them. (HAH!, I say, to
> that. When dealing with Sir-Tech software, back in my apple 2 days, I went
> through 14 consecutive bad disks with the original wizardry game. Rest
> assured that they lose my sales!)
> 

If copy protection actually WORKED all the time, I wouldn't mind it so much,
but I have had cases myself (and heard of other people's problems) where
rightfully purchased copies frequently don't load.  I had a similar problem
with Sir-Tech on their old Apple II "Glactic Attack" program.  It would fail
to load about 5 times for every 1 time it loaded.  I went through about half
a dozen original disks and a disk drive realignment before I gave up on a
game that I really enjoyed playing.

Greg Corson
19141 Summers Drive
South Bend, IN 46637
(219) 277-5306 
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