Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!att!cbnews!mlg From: mlg@cbnews.cb.att.com (mike.goodrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Mac LC and the OIDS game Message-ID: <1991Jun28.134015.10829@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 28 Jun 91 13:40:15 GMT References: <1991Jun27.071832.24907@crash.cts.com> <1991Jun27.132820.27977@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 40 > > [re: Oids copy protection] p.s. I know there is a patch available > > that will disable the CP of this game. is it legal to post it on > > Internet? (I guess not) > > Technically, no, it wouldn't be illegal. > > However, thousands of self-appointed net.thought.police would > probably descend upon you, send you nasty email, tell your sysadmin > that you are promoting software piracy, and start > yet-another-flame-war. > >It would be nicer if you (the original poster) paid for the game, >since registered users get a key code to enter that removes the copy >protection. At least, that's how I removed the copy protection from >my copy: after purchasing it, I sent in the registration card, and two >weeks later FTL sent me the key code. End of copy protection. > >If you like the game enough to waste all this time trying to get >around its copy protection, why not spend the $30 and buy it? If you >had written and published a game as wonderful as OIDS, wouldn't you >want people to buy it from you, rather than selfishly (and illegally) >copying it -- and then whining about its copy protection? I wish to correct you I am the original poster of the message about OIDS and I did dish out my $29.95 for the game. It works fine on my Mac Plus but on my Mac LC it acts strange. I have sent in the registration card to get my registration key but that will take 4-10 weeks. In the mean time I am stuck with playing a game that is excellent in color on a Black I White Mac Plus. It is just very anoying to dish out the cash for a game and have it not work correctly because of some paranoid persons copy protection scheme that DOESN'T WORK WITH ALL OF THE MACINTOSH COMPUTERS. Copy protection does nothing to deter the people who would distribute broken copies of various pieces of software. It just hurts and angers the people that go out and pay money for the software. Mike mlg@cblph.att.com