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From: sl87m@cc.usu.edu (The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Ensemble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga Pirates
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.123737.48055@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 12:37:37 MDT
References: <1991Jun8.190618.19857@techbook.com>
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <1991Jun8.190618.19857@techbook.com>, 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 ...
> 
> 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.

That's what we do for our medical software, not that there's a huge piracy
market for DNA content software :-)

tzm