Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS Message-ID: <380.276889ca@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 12:14:02 GMT References: <2401@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Lines: 42 In article , cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >>>>>> On 11 Dec 90 21:02:32 GMT, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) said: > > Larry> CD-ROM is as close to perfect copy protection as we have right now, and > Larry> it means that the vendor can't whine about piracy being the reason > Larry> sales are down. > > Can we really expect that most software vendors will be putting out CD-ROM > software that uses such a large amount of space as is available on a CD-ROM? > Point being that if it doesn't require a hard drive of significant size to > make a copy of CD-ROM software, what protects the software any more than > putting it on a floppy with no write-protect notch? Ah, how quickly we all forget! One of the most popular copy protection schemes in the past has been to place errors on the media and then having the software looking for this error. Since CDs are not writable, it would (at least in my opinion) be difficult to reproduce the disk. It probably is not a big deal for the software manufacturer to produce a piece of software that knows whether the original was in the drive. what ya'll think? > -- > ==================================================================== > David Masterson Consilium, Inc. > (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. > uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 > ==================================================================== > "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!" -mark= +--------+ ================================================== | \/ | Mark D. Manes "Mr. AmigaVision" | /\ \/ | manes@vger.nsu.edu | / | (804) 683-2532 "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA" +--------+ ==================================================