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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: Copy Protection
Message-ID: <882@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 16:57:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 16:57:24 1985
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Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
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In article <131300002@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
>Third, good manuals go a long way toward encouraging people to buy legal 
>copies of your program.  The temptation to pirate is much greater when you 
>know that if you got a legal copy, you wouldn't be any better off because 
>the manual is worthless.

Note that user-friendly, intuitive programs that don't NEED manuals
encourage copying.  I think this is why more and more games are designed
to be unplayable without the manual.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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