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From: ewhac@well.sf.ca.us (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disney Animation Studio
Message-ID: <20130@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 5 Sep 90 05:02:15 GMT
References: <4085@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "Data, don't babble."  -- Jean-Luc Picard

In article <4085@crash.cts.com> vle@pnet01.cts.com (Vinh Le) writes:
>I know there are problems with piracy, but why is a professional package like
>Disney Presents: The Animation Studio copy protected?  [ ... ]

	Because Disney absolutely positively demanded it be there.  We tried
to convince them this was Not A Good Idea, but to no avail.

	We did our best to make it as inoffensive as possible.  If you know
the keyboard commands to DPaint, you have an excellent chance of getting
past the requester.

>Why is the animation player that plays back both sound and animation
>non-freely redistributable?

	We used the Sonix music drivers by Mark Riley.  Apparently there is
some piece of weirdness in the licensing agreement that prevents us from
making 'Flicker' freely distributable.

[ General note:  Because of the amount of time it takes to slog through the
net, I don't read all of comp.sys.amiga#?.  Occasionally I search the new
postings for interesting keywords, like 'Disney'.  If you want to be
absolutely certain I see something, mail it to me;  I check my mailbox every
day. ]
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