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From: hale@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Hale)
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Subject: Re: SimCity copy protection sheet (was Re: SimEarth Copy Protection)
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Date: 22 Nov 90 00:58:14 GMT
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In article <6890@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> denden@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dennis H Chang) writes:
>I'm sure someone who owns either game and is handy with a disassembler could
>easily remove the copy protection.  I mean, for gods sake, pirates have been
>doing things like that in their sleep for years.
>It involves putting a couple nulls in a couple places.  Why doesn't some
>programmer just post the crack?
>

I don't think it is a question of ease.  I don't think anyone who
overcomes that sort of protection should let the world know how.  It's
like telling people how to pick locks... sure, maybe you locked
yourself out of your house, but most people who pick locks aren't
picking their own locks.

Now, I suppose you might complain about the companies who put such
protection in, but why do they have to do it in the first place?  I
don't think it's an easy question, but if the author/publisher puts
some form of protection in, it is there for a reason.  If you don't
like it, let the publisher/author know.  That's the only way things
will change.

Sure, we could all have password-free software - on cartriges.  Maybe
someone will design a cartrige-based distribution system for the Mac,
and then we will all be out on a limb. :(

Oh, well.  These may be my opinions.  They change from day to day...

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