Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!kudla From: kudla@jec313.its.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Subject: Re: Amiga Pirates Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: jec313.its.rpi.edu References: <1991Jun8.190618.19857@techbook.com> Date: 9 Jun 91 02:01:17 GMT Lines: 38 waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp) writes: >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 ... Actually, if you look a little closer, I'm doing exactly the opposite; I'm trying to insult or at least offend the anal-retentive privacy fanatics who *don't* want their email posted, yet barrage me with it anyway. You lose. >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. Little as I respect you and as unfamiliar as I am with your product, not being a big 3D-head myself, this strikes me as a very professional way to do it. Most IBM corporate software people do it this way. Unlimited free (barring tolls) support is good too. I'm sorry I insulted you (except on the FM Towns subject). >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. An intelligent statement. Congratulations. -- Robert Jude Kudla - Any email sent me becomes my nonexclusive property. "Oh, forgive me, Assembly'O'God! Oh Jaysus, I jest stuck the tip in, oh ma god...."