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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 09:29:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 09:29:48 1986
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: What if you don't have a credit card?


	Ture, Maxicomm's solution of compiling your credit card
number and name into the source code would seems to be a solution.
It would certainly make one guard a disk as carefully as one's
credite card.  There is a little hitch in that, though.  Here at
the University we have Amigas, and we order things with nasty
purchase orders.  You can darn well bet that I'm not going to
sacrifice the integrity of my own credit card so that my Lab can
use a program that may be backed up.  (I suppose I could alwalys
fabricate a number for our purchasing dept. to give out, presuming
that the vendor wouldn't check.)  The same problem applies to our
accademic library that has to get programs for its patrons.

	By the way, my temporary solution has been for us to make
[legitimate] backups with Marauder that one of the guys here has.
Marauder has copied everything except one of the EA games that
someone brought in- no great loss there.  I use dpaint a lot, and
have already burned up a couple copies of my original-- now I'm
happy.  Now it won't bother me to send back my orignal copy, to get
the unboogered version from EA-- although I'm not sure if its worth
the 20 bucks!

		Bill