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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Things that break with the MC68010
Message-ID: <941@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 18:19:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  3 18:19:46 1986
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References: <966@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <901@hoptoad.uucp> <2659@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <919@hoptoad.uucp> <2769@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
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In article <2769@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
>> >
>> >What is "evolving" copy protection?
>> 
>> Copy-protection which changes from time to time, in order to create the max-
>> imum amount of confusion, obfustication, and general nastiness, all in the
>> hope of trying to stop the unstoppable.  :-) (I think)
>> 
>
>But how can it "evolve" if the disk is write protected?
>
The copy-protection scheme is changed periodically by the company, not the
program.  Say, every three months or every fourth batch of disks or whatever.
In other words, the copy protect scheme used for YOUR diskette might not be
the one used for your neighbor's.



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