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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
Message-ID: <257@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 19:10:17 EDT
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In article <585@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  If a company really takes
>customer satisfaction as its number one priority, then it won't copy protect
>software.  Copy protection burns only those who pay for the software
>(like me) and NOT PIRATES.  Pirates get the software for free anyway, and

I really like the Maxi people's solution: they put your
name, credit card number, and/or telephone number in your
program.  Anyone who has a copy can see who the registered
owner is and can (mis)use his credit card number.  I certainly
wouldn't want *my* credit card number getting out.  Such programs
can be made to work as expected.  They can be copied, run from
ram: or hd0:, etc..  The buyer doesn't get burned.  And illegitimate
copying would be reduced to almost nil.

It would sure be nice if everyone would change to this new scheme
and give registered owners new copies for a very modest <$10 fee.
I even think the prices of many programs could come down with
this scheme.

I'm seriously thinking of NEVER, EVER, again buying copy protected
software.

Marnix