Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!daffy!cat56.cs.wisc.edu!pochron From: pochron@cat56.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS Summary: Easy to fill up a CD-ROM Keywords: CD ROM CDTV Message-ID: <1990Dec14.211443.25825@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 21:14:43 GMT References: <2401@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 35 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.12 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ] > >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? Is it VERY EASY to fill up a CD ROM...If you put a full-blown digital soundtrack in the game, most of the CD will get used up. What about animation? It may be that the frames for the game are loaded on the fly (sort of) and there may be thousands of them...digitized, of course. You could even fill the remainder of the disk with codewords that the program will need or look for, but a pirate might hack the program executable to ignore this. Bypassing the animation or soundtrack in a game would be pretty much impossible, and would defeat the purpose of the game. Psychologically speaking, a pirate is going to want EVERYTHING in the game to work. If the soundtrack is missing, they might as well buy the game. Of course, I'm not a pirate, so I could be wrong here. It just seems that it would be so from looking at their psych. profile. Also, how many pirates with their Amiga 500's are going to spend $$$ for a mega-mega harddrive? Again, it is beyond their fiscal abilities. >David Masterson Consilium, Inc. >(415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. >uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David M. Pochron | from Rescue Rangers, _A Fly in the Ointment_ pochron@garfield.cs.wisc.edu| Gadget to Dale: "Keep the hands off the body!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------