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From: acm@grendal.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
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Date: 29 Mar 90 20:22:12 GMT
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In article <1990Mar24.214340.13668@alzabo.uucp> tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff) writes:
>Here's another:  You won't need copy protection if your product is truly
>useful.  People will be glad to buy it rather than steal it.

Not wishing to start a flame war, but...

I can't imagine how you could substantiate a statement like that.  In my
experience, the more popular a program is, the more copies I see that have
not been paid for.