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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS
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Date: 16 Dec 90 03:49:05 GMT
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stephen@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Stephen Holmstead) writes:

> In <1990Dec12.165845.23087@hoss.unl.edu>, 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Diet
> >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 Phil
> >Huh? Why not? All it takes is a standard 669 meg drive (or part of a 1.2 GBy
> >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.

Yeah, but you can get the CD-ROMS for ~$50-70, and it doesn't seem worth 
it.

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