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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "Look up a word in the manual" copy protection
Message-ID: <6845@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 14:46:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: g.6845
Posted: Sun Jun 28 14:46:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jun-87 19:37:23 EDT
References: <1296@crash.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In article <1296@crash.CTS.COM> iqbal@pnet01.CTS.COM (Iqbal Hans) writes:
>     Your complaining about looking up a word in the manual? At least you can
>backup your game without worrying about screwing up your disk.

Yes I am complaining.  It is quite inconvenient for me.  Several others
I know feel the same way.  If the vendor is going to purposefully
inconvenience me, a customer who spent hard earned bucks on the program,
because he doesn't trust me to not to give it away, then I'm not going to buy
it in the first place.  I resent that sort of treatment, and I am letting
them know by not being their customer.

I AM NOT HERE TO DEBATE WHETHER THE PRACTICE IS ETHICAL, MORAL, RIGHTEOUS,
NECECESSARY, OR WHETHER THIS FORM OF COPY PROTECTION IS "REALLY" ANNOYING
OR INCONVENIENT.  IT IS INCONVENIENT FOR ME, AND FOR OTHERS I KNOW, AND
WHAT I AM HERE FOR IS TO INFORM VENDORS THAT I WILL NOT BUY THEIR SOFTWARE
IF IT HAS THIS FORM OF PROTECTION.

Sean
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