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From: jmurphy@pnet01.cts.com (Jason Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 23:16:05 GMT
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 If a pirate wants a game and it has copy protection on it, he is not going to
buy the game because it has the protectipon on it! He is going to wait untill
someone cracks it. Even if the copy-protection is there to slow down piracy,
it still is not going to work, because the pirate will wait  a week or 2. Then
he calls up his local pirate BBS and downloads that programs and saves 40
bucks! And EVEN GETS IT WITH OUT THE PROTECTION AND HD-INSTALLABLE.
   Jason Murphy
 San Diego, Ca

bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>>+-> 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.
> (")        BIX: bnesbitt		"Have you saved a Lemming today?"
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