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From: stephen@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Stephen Holmstead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS
Message-ID: <15440033@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 20:01:52 GMT
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In <1990Dec12.165845.23087@hoss.unl.edu>, 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
>Yeah, but they'll find a way.  The only real way a CD ROM game couldn't
>be copied is if it's 100% full.

In article <2406@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>Huh? Why not? All it takes is a standard 669 meg drive (or part of a 1.2 GByte
>SCSI hard drive.

To which grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) responds:
>Feel free. You get to copy one or two CD-ROMs, for a media cost in the
>neighborhood of $3500.  This doesn't sound like piracy to me...

No problem.  I have a 660 Mb SCSI floptical (removable) drive.  That media
only costs about $80-$100 per cartridge.

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