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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <1421@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 04:01:52 GMT
References: <12274@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1858@public.BTR.COM> <12434@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: The Whole Yuggoth Society
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In article <12434@helios.TAMU.EDU> cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes:
|In article <1858@public.BTR.COM> timm@public.BTR.COM (Timothy M. Maffett  timm@btr.com) writes:
|not for what every Joe thinks it was intended for.  That -14 day jump on the
|pirates is a moot point, that happens to virtually EVERY game.  That copy
|protection DOES work when you consider that the program is not copyable with
|any of the commercial copy programs, and the friend who was waiting for you to
|copy it for him decides, he'll just go out and buy it because finding a
|parameter, or a copy program that will copy it is taking too long.

	Looks good on paper, but it's extremely bogus.  As far as I can tell,
EVERYone knows someone with pirate connections.  You have to keep in mind that
a disproportionate number of Amiga owners have modems, and thus have 
have a much better chance of getting in touch with a pirate.

	Plus, once the pirates crack it, anyone can copy it.  -14 days before
the software is on the shelves, it's floating around in a .lhw file.


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