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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
Message-ID: <897@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 13:03:19 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.897
Posted: Fri Dec 13 13:03:19 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 04:28:48 EST
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <392@sdcc13.UUCP> 33500911@sdcc13.UUCP (Jim Hayes) writes:
>I've seen some interesting devices used on a friends computer. (Dare I mention
>it's a Commodore 64.)  He has two programs from "Batteries Included" called
>Paper Clip and Spell Pack.  To use them, he must insert a little blue thing
>into the joystick port.
>
>For the PC, I've seen a C compiler (Genesis, I think) that wouldn't
>run until part of itself was loaded from a little box plugged into the
>serial port.
>
	Not acceptable, this is *no* different than requiring a key
disk for the program to run. Look, when I am working on a project i
commonly/regularly switch back and forth among an extended set of
programs. If they all required this sort of an insert I would be
shuffling the inserts all the time. What a PAIN, especially since my
main reson for getting a hard disk was to *avoid* that very activity.
I repeat, I *will* *not* *purchase* *any* program that requires any
sort of a locking device to operate, period! When I *buy* a program I
want to use it *freely*, without hinderence. If you can come up with a
copy protection scheme that imposes *no* limits *whatever* on
legitimate users it might be acceptable.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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