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From: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS
Keywords: CD-ROM
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Date: 18 Dec 90 21:02:21 GMT
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lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) 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.

>Huh? Why not? All it takes is a standard 669 meg drive (or part of a 1.2 GByte
>SCSI hard drive.

I can just imagine this conversation between two pirates in the future:

Pirate1: Hey Joe, I've just downloaded this great 600 meg game from the 
         Pirate's Warehouse.

Pirate2: Wow!  How long did it take you?

P1: Only five minutes over that new B-ISDN 2 megabit line I stole from
    Toxico Electronic Armaments.  It's got digitised sound and animated
    blood splatters.

P2: Can I get a copy?

P1: Sure.  Swap with your new 600 meg hard disk?

P2: Err ....

Frivolously yours, :->

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