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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMs - A Little Reality Please
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.034535.8255@cs.umu.se>
Date: 21 Dec 90 03:45:35 GMT
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In article <9Baeu1w163w@kennels.actrix.gen.nz> sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) writes:
>ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:
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>I think CD-Rom could definitely slow down piracy. Of course, this is
>assuming that there aren't people in the world with the capability
>to copy CD's to other CD's... However this is not home piracy but
>commercial piracy of course.
>
I believe that commercial piracy will grow explosively if we ever manage to
make a copy protection that normal hackers can't crack.

>Again, one of the best anti-pirate devices I saw was on Shadow of the
>Unicorn for the Spectrum. It was a dongle with additional RAM and a
>joystick port. Basically you had to have the dongle before you COULD play
>the game! (It's a pity that the game was a flop... :-)
>

If I recall correctly the protection device added a bit to the price.
Was it 50% more expensive than similar games?

The most interesting with this discussions is seeing how wrong we where when
we can see the results.

/Jorgen
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