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From: jds@rayssd.UUCP (Jeffrey D. Struven)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 12:52:21 EDT
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Sorry about that last message.  I had to get out of the editor real quick
and inadvertently saved that garbage file.  Regarding the copy protection
schemes:  It would be nice if these companies would not copy protect
their software but I don't it will ever happen.  The credit card
protection is a nice idea, but one can usually find a way to edit the
contents of a disk so as to render that protection useless.  One could
in effect replace all the pertinent data with asterisks.  Not too may
credit card numbers are *** *** *** ****.  What ever one guy can copy
protect the another guy can crack.  These protection schemes are getting
very elaborate and must cost big dollars in research.  The cost of the
final product could be that much cheaper if no protection was used.
Pirates will continue to crack software so why protect the disks?

				      Jeff