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From: ejb@think.ARPA (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
Message-ID: <3624@think.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 01:49:08 EST
Article-I.D.: think.3624
Posted: Sat Dec  7 01:49:08 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 21:14:27 EST
References: <506@uvaee.UUCP> <456@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejb@think.UUCP (Erik Bailey)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <456@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <506@uvaee.UUCP> jaj@uvaee.UUCP (James A. Jokl) writes:
>>
>>A friend ...
>>selling a daTa Base Application Designed To Run on IBM PCs and compatables,
>>and wishes that it be copy protected.  ...
>
> . . .
>
>If I were you, I would tell your friend to forget it.  ...

Consider the motion seconded.

>But, here is the biggest reason of all.  Copy protection doesn't really
>protect anything. ...

Couldn't have said it better myself... :-)

>...  The cure is then placed upon BBS systems around the country.

There are MANY BBSs with entire file sections devoted to unprotects.
My favorite is prounlok, which permantly mangles PROLOK protection.
But seriously, the lag time from release to hack is not long - maybe
a month or so. Then the hack gets distributed and people implement it
as if the software wasn't protected at all, and like the unprotect is
some sort of dumb setup program. From then on: protection, NO. Pain
in the *ss, *YES*. Point made.

>End of opinion.  [Here come the flames :-(]

No flame here...
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