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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Copy protection: boycott it!
Message-ID: <4238@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 02:33:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 02:33:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 12:59:35 EDT
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Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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Keywords: piracy, copy protection, bungled burglary

In article <4826@sgi.SGI.COM> hal@pigiron.SGI.COM (John Hallesy) writes:
<Copy protection basically keeps honest people honest; a pirate will
<eventually crack anything on the market.

Copy protection also keeps honest people from making backups, and
intelligent non-desperate ones from buying your product.

Having bought one copy-protected program after getting tired of
waiting for the competition, I'm *never* going to do it again. No
program can be worth the headaches associated with copy protection.

I hope others join me in boycotting any company that cares so little
for their customers as to market software that depends on one specific
disk being readable.

	<mike
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My feet are set for dancing,				Mike Meyer
Won't you turn your music on.				mwm@berkeley.edu
My heart is like a loaded gun,				ucbvax!mwm
Won't you let the water run.				mwm@ucbjade.BITNET