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From: brent@orsvax1.UUCP (Brent Chivers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
Message-ID: <294@orsvax1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 15:43:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: orsvax1.294
Posted: Fri Aug  8 15:43:35 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Aug-86 05:48:13 EDT
References: <584@mips.UUCP> <18100003@ico>
Reply-To: brent@orsvax1.UUCP (Brent Chivers)
Organization: ORS Automation, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Lines: 31
Summary: Down with copy protection (i.e. use prevention)

In article <18100003@ico> farmer@ico.UUCP writes:
>These can be copied, but to be run, they prompt you to insert the
>original disk.  The program verifies the 'serial number' off the
>original, and asks you to reinsert the copy.
>
>I like this approach.  Since my original is not in the drive much, and
>doesn't get written to.  Also, I can copy the programs to ram, or a hard
>disk.

I don't like this approach.  The two main reasons I hear for getting
a hard disk (and I intend to, when the prices look "reasonable") are
_s_p_a_c_e and _s_p_e_e_d.  But another major benefit will be _C_O_N_V_E_N_I_E_N_C_E, and
if I have to hunt for and insert a floppy to use some software, that
benefit has been shot down.  (How would you VAX users feel about walking
to your computer room to insert a disk every time you used your favorite
editor/compiler/spreadsheet/database/etc.?)  I would expect a hard disk
to _e_l_i_m_i_n_a_t_e my _d_i_s_k _h_a_n_d_l_i_n_g, except for installation, backup, and data-
distribution tasks.
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