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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: friendly to what?
Keywords: protection, piracy
Message-ID: <22431@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 5 Jan 91 06:12:21 GMT
References: <9519@mirsa.inria.fr>
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jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi) writes:

>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?

No.  It can't.  But then, neither can any other kind of program.  Crackers
will crack anything you come up with, whether it's OS friendly or not.
Might as well make it as convenient as possible for all of us folks who
put ourselves on the line by paying actual money.

-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us