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From: mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch
Message-ID: <3850@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 03:05:48 GMT
References: <51888@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Apr26.162946.25169@cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Apr26.162946.25169@cs.ruu.nl> ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes:
>Did you ever think that this might render damages to the software house
>producing ChessMaster 2100? By giving a means to everyone to avoid their
>protection scheme, you are actually causing a potential loss in sales,
>since nobody has to have the manual to be able to play the game.

>Golden raspberry award for you, for that idea.

I think it's a damn good idea. While I certainly appreciate the alleged
necessity of copy protection, I really hate having to keep a pile of books
next to my computer to use any of my programs. I'm all for patches that
remove copy protection. I just wish more things ran on my computer anyway...

> -TT.

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