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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: Copy Protection
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 20:26:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 20:26:33 1985
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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

   NOW I realize what is happening.  A necessary manual is a dongle which
doesn't have to be (electrically) plugged into the CPU.

--henry schaffer