Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!ddsw1!corpane!disk!specter From: specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: <4647@disk.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 90 06:39:32 GMT References: <3920@corpane.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination Lines: 15 I agree totally with John Sparks on the fact that Copy Protection does promote piracy. It sometimes can cause alignment problems with your drive. I can see where some games have no need to be hard drive installed, but it is a great advantage! I am all for password protection and code wheel types: most games of this type run! (wow how startling!!) and they are more HD installable. And the fact is that people can copy most protections with hardware copies (IE image copiers) just as easy as they can copy password protections. "BROKEN" copies don't even have to come into the picture with the current reproduction tools. Come on, it is ridiculous to spoil a good program with copy protection that harms the drive in any way or will not boot! Byron