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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Xenocide deprotect
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Date: 28 Aug 89 23:37:49 GMT
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Reply-To: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
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In article <8908281946.AA23515@trout.nosc.mil> orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone) writes:
>Comment to message from: V2071A%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (George A. Piotrowski Jr.)
>
>DO NOT TRY THE XENOCIDE DEPROTECT THAT WAS UPLOADED HERE!!!!
[stuff about different versions]
> v2.1 and 2.2 are also not compatible with each other.  There are going to be
>new versions released every few weeks in an effort to prevent any cracks or
>cheats to work well. 
>
>-Brian Greenstone

 Jolly, so not only will there be ten zillion billion 'versions' of Genocide
floating about. Great.  You forget that all it takes is one crack, and unless
you change the actual game significantly, who's gonna bother cracking version
2.2,2.3,2.104394389348954, or whatever? They go to friend Joe and copy the
already deprotected version.  Besides, for every one of YOU that change the
protection every couple of weeks, there are HUNDREDS out there smashing
to dust all your effort and expense. WHY BOTHER! We told you this would
happen, but you didn't listen.

 Maybe one of these days publishers will realize that the best way to cut way
down on pirating is to do the following things:
1) stop wasting money on ridiculous protection schemes
2) make a really nice package (manual, game pieces, or whatever to make the
   package attractive and worth having)
3) Make the things affordable! $59.99 is NOT my idea of what entertainment
   should cost.  And let's not get into, "well then you should buy cheap
   entertainment". The point is that it wouldn't have to cost so much
   if you didn't spend so much time and money keeping people from copying
   it, you should be using those resources to make a product that people
   (even teenager-pirates) will WANT to spend money on.

  This is all from an ex-pirate, and I think pretty much sums up the views
of most pirates out there.  There are those of course that do it just to do it,
or to build an immense library (I know a person who has 2000 disks of Apple ][
programs, and Xenocide is almost certainly already a part of that).

  Sorry if you feel otherwise, but _THAT_ is the way it is. Why don't you
poll some pirate BBS's and find out for yourself?

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jawaid bazyar    jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  Junior/Computer Engineering UIUC

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