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From: sirius@cup.portal.com (Mike Sirius Stilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SHareware/commercial software
Message-ID: <30549@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 19:37:51 GMT
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> [Re: Copy protection scemes ]

I agree that they're necessary too, however I have only one problem.....
With a couple dozen HD's sitting here, I'd much prefer publishers coming up
with an easy way to install software on an hard drive.. especially if the gam
is disk-intensive.  I don't pirate software.  Plain and simple.  But usually
one of the first things I do when I get a program protected via some track
encryption (boot blocks, or extended tracks, or errors on a track.. etc..)
is to take the copy protection out so I can at least try running it off the
hard disk..

At most it takes a "Assign DiskName DH8:Wherever" and all is well...

With reads near 400k/sec compared to 60k for floopies, I think people can
understand why.

Key disks are a partial solution, but what happens when that disk goes
bad?  Send it in for $10 you get a new one?  Like Dana said, when they
start charging the cost of a disk that'll be better, I can take my originals
out of their hermetically sealed chamber.

Code wheels are fine, assuming you don't mind headaches...
Word lookup?  Hehehe.

Once I know how to use a program, I usually manage to lose the manual forever
(assuming I even opened it in the first place)


	Mike 'Sirius' Stilson

(sorry if this has all been gone over... just got back after 8 months.)