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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: CDTV News
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 04:07:14 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.195643.949@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>Yet on CIS comes a report that CDTV developer docs discuss several ways
>to "prevent piracy" of CDTV discs.   They give methods of preventing
>CDTV titles from running on an Amiga... such as looking for the CDTV
>parameter RAM, placing CD-audio on the first track, and so on.
>
	I don't know if it is true, but if so it is pretty silly.
What developer would INTENTIONALLY cut off a certain market
segment?
	-- Ethan

"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."