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From: jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: friendly to what?
Keywords: protection, piracy
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Date: 3 Jan 91 16:32:21 GMT
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Let me state first that I know nothing of AmigaDos (hope that should
not last long), only a bit of OS and real time principles.

So I have a question for the gurus: do you think that a program
that is "OS-friendly" can be seriously protected against piracy?
Isn't such a program an easy prey for the crackers?

For example, allowing multitasking means (at least) saving the process
state quite often, so it should be easy to trace/look/dump it (almost) any
time. Let's say when the copy-protection comes up.

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