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From: strovink@sscafit-ab.arpa (Mark Strovink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Copy Protection via manuals (was Silent Service)
Message-ID: <197@sscafit-ab.arpa>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 15:09:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: sscafit-.197
Posted: Wed Sep  9 15:09:28 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Sep-87 04:45:31 EDT
References: <8CRONEJP@UREGINA1> <153@jc3b21.UUCP> <2380@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: strovink@afit-ab.arpa (Mark Strovink)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
Lines: 32
Keywords: hypocracy
Summary: My opinion on manual based copy protection

I deleted a lot of lines about Silent Service and copy protection.
This is the part I wanted to respond to:
>
>Sorry, I just don't see _any_ reason to remove "keyword from manual"
>protection except piracy.
>
>Kent, the man from xanth.

You never leave a manual at a friends house?  Or spill drinks on
things?  Have you ever seen a manual win a confrontation with an
'adorable' teething 7-month old?  None of my manuals have won yet
(they must taste better than plain newspaper).  I guess nothing ever
'disappears' at your house?

When I have a few minutes I can kill on the Amiga, I don't want to
spend them trying to find the manual.  I tend to enjoy programs a lot
more when I only need the manual as a reference (hopefully a dusty
one).

"keyword from manual" protection annoys me less than other methods.
However, most software has enough bugs/features in it that I do NOT need
more aggravation from copy/pirate protection.  Marauder II does the
honest user a favor (not to mention pirates, *please*).  Try to
imagine multi-tasking if all of your programs wanted you to have the
manual handy!

Oh heck.  Marauder II is a tool.  How anybody uses it is out of my
control.  Should we ban disassemblers, disk editors, and Xeroc
machines?

Mark Strovink              arpanet address = strovink@afit-ab.arpa
"I got a round toit, but it broke.  Have you seen a part toit?"