Path: utzoo!censor!geac!contact!zooid!pondscum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Copy protection (e.g. the Lemmings debate)
From: pondscum@zooid (Lima Bone)
Message-ID: <521gy1w162w@zooid>
References: <1991Mar4.003127.26071@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 91 18:33:15 EST
Organization: ZOOiD BBS

sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Samuel S Sostre) writes:

> In article <1991Mar2.023142.25632@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.
> >In article <1991Feb27.032156.19436@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.O
> 
> >Some pirates will stop at nothing however.  I personally know one that
> >photocopied both booklets that came with the game just to get it for free.
> 
> Anyone who has seen Full Metal Planet or Purchased it knows that the manual i
> indeed very large. Despite the fact that its about 30-60 copied pages, I know
> someone who did copy it only to have the game. It goes to show that pirates 
> will stop at nothing.
> 
> 
> >-- 
> >Darin Sheriff; Amiga 1000 owner.        dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu
> >People don't pirate software.  Computers pirate software.
> >Disclaimer: It wasn't me.  It was Chucky.  He did it.

30-60 pages at 10cents a copy isn't very horrible, dontcha know. I wouldn't 
call it a STOP AT NOTHING thing to do. At least they didn't wait for another 
pirate to type up complete docs avec walk through/hints like most pirated 
games have.
 
 Lima