Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!orca.dsd.es.com!javelin.es.com!pashdown From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy protection (was Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed!) Message-ID: <1990Dec5.144311.4975@javelin.es.com> Date: 5 Dec 90 14:43:11 GMT References: <49144@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: pashdown%javelin@dsd.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah Lines: 44 v092mgp5@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) writes: > By saying this you are obviously not very familiar with the wrold >of software piracy. True, pirates do not duplicate the documentation >or code wheels, BUT THEY WRITE PROGRAMS THAT BYPASS THAT PROCTECTION. >Developers are in the business >for money, and when pirates get in the way of making that money, most >of them will not hesitate to institute protection. > In your initial message you say that pirates are simply the >scapegoats for the horrid copy-protection found on some software. Who >is to blame then? I personally see only the pirates at fault. >Without them, companys would have never had a reason to use >copy-protection in the first place. >It is going to be a LONG >time before copy-protection disappears, especially in the game arena, >from the Amiga marketplace. What you are failing to realize is that there has _never_ been any sort of protection that has actually stopped the pirates. I challenge anyone on here to mention one single piece of Amiga software that hasn't been pirated. This is the same case for the IBM, the Mac, the ST, the Apple II, and the C64. There has virtually NEVER been a successful copy protection that hasn't been 'cracked' by someone. So I fail to understand why software companies still rely on this garbage. In the past few years, it has gotten better, but most still do the stupid drive gronk in order to keep the valid user from backing up their validly purchased software, while the pirates march on. What the software companies have to realize is that its a lack of QUALITY that hurts their sales and not lack of COPY PROTECTION. One of the few software houses still left for the Apple II is Beagle Bros. They NEVER protected any of their software and continually provided a great product with great support. Where are the companies like Muse and Sirius today? > Scott > BITNET : v092mgp5@ubvms.bitnet > INTERNET : v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu -- / (Rotate head 90 degrees for full effect) | BUNGEEEEEEEE! |---------------------------------------------------------------------->=