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From: ESDYKE@MTUS5.BITNET (Erick Dyke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and swapware
Message-ID: <90179.002354ESDYKE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 28 Jun 90 05:23:54 GMT
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I could say a lot in response to your 'solutions' that you gave but it
It seems that you have an answer for everything, I'll try to keep this short
in a vain attempt to make a point.

1)  You suggest buying a site-license to use a program on two machines in
    my home.  Just what I need, spending more money on one piece of
    software.  I find this more inconvienent than Disk Thrashing.

2)  You say no one is going to sell non-protected software for more money.
    Take a look at magazine ads, many companies do this.

3)  You seem to think that the serial number stuff is going to make piracy
    go away.  It wont, copiers today REMOVE lookup security, so serial
    number checking would probably be no big deal.  The code still has to
    run on a 680XX series processor, and no matter how encoded it gets it
    still at sometimes has to end up as simple machine code.  Which can
    be examined at any time on a wonderful multitasking machine.

4)  You suggest hauling my system all over town.  I dont know what system
    you have but lugging a full blown 2000 with harddrives across town,
    to a place where there is an almost identical machine is stupid, silly
    and an unnecessary risk of equipment.

To sum it up, if this new protection scheme of yours means that I as an
honest user must, pay more to run on my 2 machines, haul my equipment across
town (disconnecting it every time), or purchase a copier that will
remove the protection (while helping someone get rich off of piracy),
I rould rather let piracy run wild.

The whole idea of the type in the word method, is that it does not treat the
average user as a crook, by being as convienent as possiable.  Your method
treats me as a common crook.

Erick -- Wondering why many have to pay for the actions of the few.