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From: gfm@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch
Message-ID: <1991May7.002909.17186@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 00:29:09 GMT
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In article <1991May06.155345.17107@cs.ruu.nl> ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes:
>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!)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Utter bullsh*t, the patch itself is in no way illegal, and the author (I'd assume) is only making it available so that it might help people who are fed up 
with entering words from a manual...it does get tedious...If the patch is used
for illegal purposes, it is not the fault of the author....Although the 
'morality' of releasing such a patch is debtable, there is no way that the 
patch itself is illegal, For example: There are MANY commercial programs that
strip both Disk Based Protection AND Manual based protection (For 'Archival
Purposes' only, of course) these include: Maverick, Nib, Project D, RawCopy and others, and these have exsisted for many years, and are not illegal at all.


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