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Subject: Re: MacPascal Copy Protection
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 08:39:50 EDT
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From: Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s) <mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley>
	The real solution to copy protection -- which is a pain -- is to
reward the manufacturers who don't use it by (a) buying their product,
rather than getting it from a friend; and (b) only loaning it to those who
promise to purchase the product if they like it and who you trust to keep
the promise.  Soon, non-copy-protected environments will become available
for the Mac -- I am beta-testing one now which looks extremely promising,
and which I'll review when the manufacturer releases me from my
non-disclosure agreement -- but if these guys go broke because of rampant
piracy soon there won't be software products without copy protection.

	Sorry.  Didn't mean to flame or preach.  But I do think that we can
kill off copy protection by being responsible users.  Of course, none of
what I said above applies to copy-protected software.

						Rick.