Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!llama From: llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: SimEarth copy protection Summary: Defeating CP no sin Keywords: spam spam Copy Protection spam spam spam Message-ID: <1991Jan31.222504.12327@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: 31 Jan 91 22:25:04 GMT References: <1991Jan28.043033.11475@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <4f802472.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: DCIS Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 33 Originator: llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu In article <4f802472.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Carlton B. Hommel writes: An examination of the first few blocks of the file with a sector editor could possibly prove enlightening. In article Matt Evett writes: >I take it from Mr. Hommel's response that he either has defeated SimEarth's >copy protection scheme via this method, or he is suggesting that others might >defeat it this way. In either case I wish to rant and rave a bit. Why? You later go on to talk about protection from software piracy, but nowhere do you discuss why you object to removal of copy protection. Removal of copy protection and software piracy are two different things! >I strongly sympathize with software manufacturer's >needs to protect their copyrights. This need is amply (and frequently) >demonstrated in this very newsgroup (indeed, by the letter quoted >above). You have reached entirely the wrong conclusion. What the letter quoted above demonstrates is the need for NO copy protection. Mr Hommel removed the copy protection because he found it an annoyance. How you can construe this to justify copy protection in this instance is beyond me. >For entertainment software, my sympathies are even more with the >manufacturers. Entertainment software typically is not a big money maker. >Moreover, the software is relatively inexpensive; I see no reason why >people can't scratch up the $30 or $40 bucks to buy a good game. Are you claiming that Mr Hommel did not purchase SimEarth? Or that he is distributing SimEarth illegally? If so, on what do you base these claims? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Read My Lips: No Nude Texans!" - George Bush clearing up a misunderstanding