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From: ge@mcnc.UUCP (George Entenman)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: copy protection query
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:31:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:31:49 1985
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A friend of mine has an expensive software package for her
ibm-xt.  She wants me to use it to do some work for her on my
zenith z-150, which doesn't have a hard disk.  She warned
me to be careful with the floppy because they apparently get
trashed easily and cost $50 to replace (outrageous price in
my opinion, after paying $1200).

I would like to make a backup copy of this floppy disk.  I feel
that this is ethically okay because she has paid for the software
and because I will work for her (without pay).

So my question is: if I put protection tape on the floppy, is there
any way that attempting to copy the floppy can possibly damage the disk
and require another $50 replacement?  It seems to me that if you
can't write to the disk, attempting to copy it can't hurt it.

				George Entenman
				MCNC


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