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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Online vs. Hardcopy Manuals (was Re: Copy Protection)
Message-ID: <5766@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 May 90 16:08:02 GMT
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In <1861@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>If a computer company (like CBM, Atari, etc) went to the trouble to make
>the hardware itself be copy protection, I would not buy such a computer.
>It's INSULTING! The computer manufacterer is saying "we don't trust you,
>so we are going to stop you just in case." 

>I don't need no steenking (TM) big brother to hold my hand and make sure I 
>am honest or not. If they don't trust me, then fine, I won't buy there stuff
>, be it hardware or software.

I see the possibilities of a low-cost, high-capacity read-only medium and
the widespread use of inexpensive players (CD-ROM) stopping most piracy,
at least for the era it is dominant in, if any.  Once high capacity read-write
optical of equal or higher capacity achieved substantial market penetration, all
bets would again be off.
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