Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!teda!zehntel!donw From: donw@zehntel.zehntel.com (Don White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy Protection Message-ID: <5002@zehntel.UUCP> Date: 30 May 90 21:20:32 GMT References: <6936@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <90137.023945ESDYKE@MTUS5.BITNET> <939@tau.sm.luth.se> <44JY02Cia9F201@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <3681@milton.acs.washington.edu> Sender: usenet@zehntel.UUCP Reply-To: donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White) Organization: Zehntel, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 49 In article <3681@milton.acs.washington.edu> fetrow@milton.u.washington.edu (David Fetrow) writes: >#In article <939@tau.sm.luth.se>, d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) writes: >#> >#> In my opinion only an extensive manual is a valid copyprotection. > > Two additional features of the Borland school of copy-protection-via-manual A WARNING ABOUT BORLAND - I bought Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. It has special disk copy protection and is NOT CLEARLY MARKED AND IT REQUIRES THAT YOU LEAVE THE DISK WRITE ENABLED!!!!! It is my normal routine to back up all programs and to WRITE PROTECT any master disk. This game CAN NOT be backed up and MUST be WRITE ENABLED to play!!!! This is the stupidest, most USER HOSTILE kind of copy protection. I grudgingly accept the reality of copy protection. Publishers just DO that to their software. That's life. But, you SHOULD be able to write protect the disk. If it is not protected, you run the risk of your one and only disk being DESTROYED by a glitch or by a virus or by an ignorant user pulling the disk or ... Any time a disk is copy protected, an alternate save/score disk should be allowed. It is standard practice for intelligent users back up software before using it. Many packages CLEARLY state in the baginning of their documentation that you should do this. So, it is my habit to backup sofware BEFORE EVEN GETTING STARTED USING IT!!! The manual tells you it is protected on the LAST page. Which means you most likely will not know about the protection. When you make a workbench copy, your copy crashes the system. I bought this program for a novice user. She tried backing up her software and was upset when her computer acted like it was broken! Unfortunately, she likes the game, so we can't burn it in effigy on the steps of borland. (Notice the lower case.) But, I WILL BACK THIS UP FOR HER MYSELF!!! (Fat chance I'm going to pay borland fifteen dollars! They really are trying to cover the A$$E$ at my expense.) Hmmmm. Let's see. The top of track zero has an extra long gap. Hmmmm. There appears to be extra data besides AAAA. Hmmmm... * Don White * * Box 271177 Concord, CA. 94527-1177 * * zehntel!donw *