Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS Keywords: CD-ROM Message-ID: <2411@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 14 Dec 90 18:59:11 GMT Lines: 26 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <24013@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: >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. > >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... Well, that was the entire point in the posting in which I spoke of CD-ROMs being the closest thing to theft protection that we curently have. Read the sentence I am replying to. It states that you cannot copy a full CD-ROM to a hard drive. My refutation of that statement makes no mention of piracy. -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+