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From: rjg@nis.NIS.MN.ORG (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it!
Message-ID: <640@nis.NIS.MN.ORG>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 23:53:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: nis.640
Posted: Fri Jul  3 23:53:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 18:06:13 EDT
References: <4826@sgi.SGI.COM> <4238@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rjg@nis.NIS.MN.ORG (Robert J. Granvin)
Organization: National Information Systems, Inc., Minneapolis
Lines: 25
Keywords: piracy, copy protection, bungled burglary

>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.

You're apparently going to rely on a very small amount of software,
and public domain software, then.  Of course, using this philosophy,
you'll save your checkbook a lot of minor coronaries.  :-)

It's unfortunate, but companies will continue to copy protect software,
as long as the public continues to copy and distribute them.  While
copy protection doesn't stop the problem it slows it.  While a world
without copy protection would be all nice and rosy, it'll probably
never happen until human nature itself changes.  The company that owns
the software has every right to protect it's products.  Software is
poorly protected by the law, at least compared to other consumer
products.

All support for a copy-protection-less world.  Only, someone will have
to convince me first that it's possible.  Sigh.

-- 
 Robert J. Granvin                             UNIVERSE: rjg@NIS.MN.ORG 
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