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From: waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Amiga Pirates
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.190618.19857@techbook.com>
Date: 8 Jun 91 19:06:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1991Jun8.190618.19857
Reply-To: waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp)
Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix
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Since my name is being thrown around in vain, please give me a minute to
defend my position.  (Don't you just hate bozos who put your name in a
subject line, intended as a insult and then scream bloody murder when 
someone else posts some of their Email?)  Anyway ...

There have been a lot of comments about how you can't stop piracy and the
myths that go with piracy.  Anyway at Hash Enterprises with decided that
way to fight this very HUGE problem is to put the owners name, phone and
address in the program.  When the program runs, a little box comes up with
this information.  This has really worked much better than anything else 
we have tried.  Why?  It is easy to break or just not pay any notice too.
Yet it works, because since we personalize the product we know who has paid
for it.

Animation:Journeyman is a product that requires support.  We give free 
telephone support (user pays tolls, but we don't charge for talking to us.)
We also give very low cost, sometimes free updates.  In a package like Jman
that is growing and improving all the time that is important.  Coupled with
the fact that we know who has paid for Jman, our copy protection works.

Sure, we get fooled, on the phone once in a while, but sooner or later we
catch on and the pirate is caught.  

Piracy is problem on all machines, I don't think it is any worse or better
on the Amiga.  It is a real common problem, that costs everyone.  Buyers end
up paying for via higher prices and inconvience. 

                                                Wayne Knapp 
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