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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy Protection on Amiga format disks
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 03:20:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 03:20:13 1987
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	The copyprotection designer can basically do anything, since you have
direct control overthe flux transitions (the Amiga does the MFM encoding then
DMA's the track buffer to the disk).  Thus, theoretically, you can do even
more then you could through a 'full' disk controller.

	More and more people are refusing to buy copyprotected software mainly
because it ties up a disk drive, masters and even copies can get trashed, and
such software is not easily placed on other storage media (hard disk, etc...).
Thus, the general industry trend is away from copyprotection and towards
large manuals.

				-Matt