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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Copy protection (e.g. the Lemmings debate)
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Date: 13 Mar 91 20:00:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.003127.26071@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <521gy1w162w@zooid>
 <1991Mar9.204233.25570@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <176@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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In article <176@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl>, Michael Brouwer writes:

> sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm) writes:
> 
> [stuff deleted (4th]])
> 
> >Im not talking about the cost so much as going through the trouble of making
> >60 copies.
> 
> If you have the time to play the game, you would probably also have time to copy
> the manual. Even if it is 60 (wow!) pages.

   Well, but you won't get a decent third, fourth, fifth generation copy,
like you do with floppies. Piracy doesn't run wild this way. Ever tried
sending a printed manual over a modem? HST's are widely used by pirates.

   Many pirates don't even play the game, they merely distribute it!!!

> I think copying a game and the manual
> takes less time and is not as much of a fuss as visiting a store four times to
> see if the game you ordered has arrived yet.

   Now, that's a real problem here in Europe. We _usually_ have access to
pirated copies (true for DM, CSB, PowerMonger, SimCity & Lemmings) before
they arrive at the stores!

> (did you read this in one breath ;-) )

   Yes, and English isn't my native language... Well, I did read it again.



                                                      -Henrik


> P.S. these opinions are not my one, but my vt100's

   Gee, I'm now arguing with a terminal... :-(
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