Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!quest!orbit!zuhause!bruce From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy protection (was Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed!) (LONG) Message-ID: Date: 9 Dec 90 00:01:42 GMT References: <1990Dec5.041002.453@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Dec5.205822.216@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1366@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Lines: 18 >In article <1366@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes: >In this thread an earlier posting stated that the poster had never seen any >form of protection that had not been cracked, which set me to thinking ... > >1. I've not seen or heard of pirated versions of Superbase for the Amiga. I > believe that this program is dongle protected. {I do not use and hence I > do not seek out pirated s/w so I may be merely ignorant of the facts of > the matter here.} > > Question{s}: is it very easy (or hard) to overcome dongle protection? In the case of Superbase, it's really simple. Send them $10, and they send you a non-copyprotected version (if you're a registered user, of course). -- bruce@zuhause.mn.org