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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS
Message-ID: <185c7005.ARN1263@adspdk.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 09:52:53 GMT
References: <2401@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Dec12.165845.23087@hoss.unl.edu>
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In article <1990Dec12.165845.23087@hoss.unl.edu>, Phil Dietz writes:

> In article <2401@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
> >In <1990Dec11.205920.12986@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>, pochron@cat52.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron) writes:
> >>Perhaps one of the reasons game developers are so hot on CD-ROM technology
> >>is it is impossible to pirate a CD-ROM - too much inforation stored there,
> >>even for a hard drive.

> If a program is to successfully be copyrighted on a CD-ROM it will have
> to be encrypted, just like now-a-days.

    That's too easy to break. Just never compress anything, and the sheer
price and hassle of getting it down to a hundred or more floppies will bog
the pirates. HST modems won't be of any help, and even the price of enough
floppies to hold a CD-ROM will approach that of the original! Not to
mention the amount of disk swapping it takes to play it.

> Im just trying to say that in the eyes of a European Hacker, nothing is
> impossible (especially when DAT's and Floptical's are so commonly
> available.)

   Well, but it will take a significant amount of HW investement to be a
pirate. You don't start off by getting a machine and an extra floppy drive.
A nice _big_ Quantum could take *ONE* CD-ROM, if it ain't too full. DAT
drives or Flopticals aren't standard equipment yet, either. The DAT might
hold a CD-ROM, but you can't use it directly off the tape. The Floptical
doesn't hold enough to emulate the CD format.

   While it's not a major theoretical obstacle in copying a CD ROM, the
practical consequences will be nil currently, except if the pirates get as
far as mastering their own disks.. :-]

   I've pursuaded my boss into getting the Xetec drive, so I'm waiting
eagerly.


                                                -Henrik
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