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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Copy protect disk
Keywords: copy protect
Message-ID: <2672@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 89 16:00:58 GMT
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In article <673@cbnewse.ATT.COM> rtf1@cbnewse.ATT.COM (richard.t.ferber) writes:
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<I am trying to come up with a way to copy protect a floppy disk so it can't
<be copied by either diskcopy or copy *.*.

Personal opinion:

Don't bother.  It is more trouble that it is worth.  This is the world of
the hard disk.  If you keep a diskette from being copied, no one will want
it.  I personally will not buy a program that will keep me from running it
from my hard disk.  If it is a data disk, there isn't any way to protect it.

The past has proven for every copy protection method tried, there was a way
found to remove it.  Even the last major die-hard, Lotus, gave up and sent
out diskettes containing a program to remove the copy protection from their
2.01 version of 1-2-3.  I didn't have to use it as I removed it long before
then.

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