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From: ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch
Message-ID: <1991May06.155345.17107@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 6 May 91 15:53:45 GMT
References: <51888@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Apr26.162946.25169@cs.ruu.nl> <3850@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <3850@ux.acs.umn.edu> mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes:

>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.
>
>--SeebS--
>NOT Linda Seebach

In case you did not get the point, this comes damn close to piracy. Unless
you can actually prove that you purchased the game, the patch is illegal.
(Even then!)

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