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From: soh@andromeda.trl.OZ.AU (kam hung soh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point!
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.053709.7740@trl.oz.au>
Date: 8 Jun 91 05:37:09 GMT
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mcgowen@saturn.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen) writes:
>Psygnosis still does not want Joe Average to be
>able to give their games (an investment of their money) to the kid next door,
>down the street, and the one they met once at school who has the same kind of
>computer.

Proponents of disk-based protection systems seem to forget pirates have
and can break any protection on disk and honest buyers are penalised
instead.  If a person buys a game, why does he have to pay extra so
that he can fully utilise his system?  Will the company replace his
game disk for free if he wears it out due to the protection system?
Why does he have to put up with such inconvenience at all in the first
place?

Isn't fairer to reward the honest user instead of punishing him?

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