Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!gatech!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!re0t+ From: re0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ronald William Ely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 90 02:25:32 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 Gee, what a great idea. All software producers have to do to keep from losing their market to piracy is to lose their market by distributing their product on a medium that a large number of individuals don't have access to. Of course you are assuming that this is in the future when everyone has a CD ROM drive. But then again, how do you know that 250 meg readable/writeable optical drives like on the NeXT cubes won't become popular, giving pirates a suitable medium for copying CD ROMS onto... Really, using a new medium will in no way prevent piracy. There are just too many people with nothing better to do than sit around and try to get around all the producers' protection schemes. ********************************************************************** * Ronald W Ely: re0t+@andrew.cmu.edu * * ronb0+@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Screen flicker isn't a bug--it's a feature" * * "Scheme is just an adventure game, and if you win, you get to * * program in C" * *-------May Spirit of the Radio be with you. 8-D ;) :-> * **********************************************************************