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Subject: Re: Thoughts on copy protection
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.213857.25589@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:38:57 GMT
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Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
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Personally I always remove any sort of protection on software that I
buy. I really dislikes the protection, except one sort. I think it is OK
to require the master disk to install software to another disk / a
harddisk. It is also OK to put some information about the current disk
into the application, such that it will not run if it gets stolen.

I think that much of the piracy is done by people who finds a copy on as
public machine on the university, and just gets a copy from there. I
would really like to see this sort of copying stopped. If two people who
can't afford some software decides to share a copy that they pay for,
then this is better for the company, as they sell 1 copy compared to
none.

All opinions are strictly personal.
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