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From: wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner)
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Subject: Re: Maxidesk, Deluxe Paint (a plea not to start a digression on copy protection)
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 12:37:45 EST
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Summary: Lets not and say we did


As the person who penned the original followup that took the conversation
into the realm of copy protection, I would like to try to head this off
before it becomes a full-fledged general copy protection discussion.

The network tends to have a high degree of positive feedback, and therefore
tends to degenerate easily into discussions of little value.  Copy 
protection is one of those conversations.  General conversation of
copy protection is not inherently bad...it just has to occur in the
right newsgroup (I've been off for a while, so I don't know where the
proper place is any more...anyone help me out?).  I did not mean to 
start a general pros and cons of copy protection discussion here.
I had never run across a program copy protected the way DeluxePaint is,
wasn't sure that this was copy protection, wasn't sure what to do about it,
and so on.  I (and other interested parties) got the answers I needed; to
wit: DP is copy protected, in a so called key-disk manner; the vendor is
currently thinking about this scheme, so mail to him might help; their
other policies that bear on the question are a replacement policy where
you send the old damaged disk and some money, and a backup disk policy
for those with more foresight, where you send more money and get a second
copy; and a habit of reporting the names of other copy protected programs
here (and other forums) might be of value.

Sorry for being so long-winded...I guess I also summarized to the net the
results of my query.

Michael Wagner, UTCS (utcs!wagner)