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From: vle@pnet01.cts.com (Vinh Le)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Disney Animation Studio
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Date: 24 Aug 90 13:16:01 GMT
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I know there are problems with piracy, but why is a professional package like
Disney Presents: The Animation Studio copy protected?  The copy protection is
the manual type, ie you must look up a word in the manual and enter it.  This
type of protection pretty much puts a damper on spontaneous creativity- at
least for me.  I don't see how this prevents piracy.  The pirates will surely
have a non-manual copy protected version and the only people who will have to
deal with the word-look-up hassle will be legitimate users.
 
Why is the animation player that plays back both sound and animation
non-freely redistributable?  I'm refering to the program called "flicker".  I
know that the player that plays back animation only, without sound, is freely
redistributable, so I can't say there's no means of spreading your animations,
but I'd like the sound along with the animation.  So what's the problems?
 
                                    Vinh Le
 

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