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From: tlz@drutx.UUCP (ZrustTL)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Copy protection and quality software
Message-ID: <819@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 11:19:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 11:19:57 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Aug-86 09:16:35 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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>>Call Accolade.  Their copy protection does not work with some early 520ST
>>keyboard controller chips.  They have a fix for this.  That's what they get
>>for going beyond the bounds of what we say is OK to use.

>- That's what the BUYER gets for buying "copy protected" software.
>Please, let's all get together and refuse to do that! As things are now,
>the pirates copy anyway, and legitimate buyers have problems, not only
>with things like an old computer model, but simply with using RAM disks
>and hard disks. Would you pay for a book that can only be read under UV
>light, and that you're not allowed to read on more than one desk?

Fine.  I guess that leaves me with a 520ST computer and a lot of
non-copy protected software that's not worth copying anyway.
While there are some excellent packages that are not protected,
most of the really useful stuff IS protected.
While boycotting vendors of copy protected software
may well teach THEM a lesson (or put them out of business),
it doesn't leave ME with much useful software.
Besides, it only teaches THEM a lesson if they know that the reason
their software is not selling is because of copy protection.

Did you buy your computer to teach people lessons or to use it?

-- 
Terry L. Zrust, AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
MS 30L49,  11900 North Pecos Street, Denver, CO 80234
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