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From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm)
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Subject: Re: Copy protection (e.g. the Lemmings debate)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 05:51:48 GMT
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In article <18d253db.ARN19e3@adspdk.UUCP> hclausen@adspdk.UUCP writes:
>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.

Looking at full metal planet, I dont think you could send it over the modem 
unless you digitized it <the docs that is> because different pages have 
different "codes". Generally the piracy over the modem of this game would have 
the check removed like in a Powermonger pirated game my friend has.

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

This is VERY true, assuming Amiga pirates are just like c64 pirates <i still
have my 128D and know all about the pirates and how they worked. I can imagine
amiga pirates being the same.>



>> 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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