Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMS Message-ID: <1990Dec23.145707.11426@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 23 Dec 90 14:57:07 GMT References: <9012230815.AA07279@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 22 aa377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes: > Ok, here is (IMHO) the final word on pirating CD's... Not hardly! ;-) >Take five minutes of audio track and fill it with spoken words.. >The user must type in the word to start the game. No CD-ROM, >No playing.. Simple. Anyone seeing a flaw in this argument >speak up. Five minutes is about 2000 words or 3 1/3 pages. I type it out, I photocopy the cheat for about a dime and give you a copy along with the copy of the real game info. Next person who wants to claim copy protection is possible, at all, any medium? I contend the best you can do is copy dissuasion, and that not for long. It just isn't worth the irritation to your users. Kent, the man from xanth.