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From: bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <19136@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 05:18:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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>+-> many people who would buy games that are otherwise wonderful are not doing 
>|  so SOLELY because of the copy protection ----> which means that fewer copies
>|  are sold ----> higher prices and better pirate versions ----> more 
>|  piracy  ---->  more copy protection so --+
>|          	                             |
>+--------------------------------------------+
>
>COME ON COMPANIES, lets break this cycle.


Sometimes I just buy the real copy-protected version.  Then, if the copy-
protection becomes a problem, I obtain a deprotected version of the same
product or crack it for personal use.  A bit strange, but it works.

I hate the keyword-on-the-unreadable-paper programs the most.  Too bad the
legitimate purchaser is the most inconvenienced by protection.

Some people seem to miss one major point of copy protection on games; a
benefit for the publishers is not prevention of piracy, rather simple delay.
They hope to get the bulk of sales before the pirates have widely spread the
product.  I really hate to see products pirated well before the initial
availablility; give 'em a chance.


-- 
|\_/|  . "ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH!"  "Lawyers: America's untapped export market."
{X o} .     Bryce Nesbitt, Operating Systems Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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