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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: copy protection
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Date: 29 Jan 91 03:50:47 GMT
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*** BOGUS ANALOGY ALERT ***

In article <9101272223.AA08327@desktalk.com> rlg@BIOBIO.DESKTALK.COM (Richard L. Gralnik) writes:
>If you want to live on share-ware go ahead, but to say that people
>should boycott a company that tries to keep you from making unauthorized
>copies of their software is like saying you shouldn't go to the
>supermarket because they prosecute shoplifters.

Bzzt. Sorry, but you blew it.

Saying that people should boycott a company that uses copy protection is like
saying that you should change supermarkets when the one you're in attaches
bowling balls to the TV dinners to keep you from shoplifting them.

>p.s. Tops also implements a networked serial number comparison scheme.

Thanks for passing that along. Yet another product to avoid.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein