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From: hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Removing copy protection from SimCity
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.025323.25263@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 02:53:23 GMT
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Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
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I think one of the main reasons for copy protection is to prevent
everybody who has access to a machine with the software to take it with
them home.

All copy protection can be removed, and also the software producers
knows that. But if there is some way to stop people from just getting a
copy from a BBS (Yes, you can do this with MS-DOS commercial games), or
even more likely from a public machine then this will probably increase
the sales. The standard user who puts a game onto the university
computer to see it in color, and does not remove it when finihed may
give the game away to 20 users or more without knowing.

more complex packages will often need a manual, or a reference card,
also does the users of such programs often want the ability to get
support in case of problems.a

I only see a real pirate problem in the area of games. Much of the other
software is used by serious users. This is also one of the reasons why
there isn't very much serious software for the Amiga. It is a games
machine, and then there is only a few seriously onlyy users, and thus
more pirates.

Povl

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Povl H. Pedersen             hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu
HP48sx archive maintainer