Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!1k1mgm From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Copy Protection Schemes Message-ID: <27030.2749b519@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 03:58:33 GMT References: Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 23 In article,cl29+@andrew.cmu.edu(Cameron Christopher Long) writes: > My company's first product was sold without any form of protection, and > although our market is limited to only a couple of thousand buyers, we only > sold 25 copies. Why? Because everyone copied the original 25, and thus had > no need to buy more. Cheer up. If it had been copy protected, you might have sold 3. > We are considering some form of copy protection for our next product, and > I am interested in any ideas/suggestions for or against protection... Try making being a registered user a Good Deal, not just a means to help the author(s) become the next Mitch Kapor or Bill Gates. Free update or two; especially nifty manual(s); useful newsletters (not glorified ads like Microsoft); on-line services of some sort? > Cameron Long > cl29@andrew.cmu.edu Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics & Modeling Lab SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045