Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!kennels!sbeagle From: sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: The Real Reason Why... (Was: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point! Re: Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 13:35:49 GMT References: <4068@ux.acs.umn.edu> Organization: Orb Systems Unlimited, NZ Lines: 17 mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) writes: > Let's get to the real reason why Psygnosis continues to keep that strangle > hold on our disk drives. They're afraid of piracy, so much so that they > will lose their honest customers through their crappy copy protection. The funny thing is that their anti-piracy protection just pisses off the real owners - I have seen every Psygnosis game ever written on the pirate circuit. A few months ago I bought Indianapolis 500, and there's some annoying manual protection. Recently I got a pirated copy as well, which didn't have the protection. Guess who got screwed? Sleeping Beagle (aka Thomas Farmer) sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz Ph. +64-4-796306 (voice) "You ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog." With this much posting, I must be a Post, Post Modern Man.