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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: About Software Piracy!
Message-ID: <2266@crash.cts.com>
Date: 4 Jan 88 14:56:11 GMT
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sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>In article <2258@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>>        Why has't some provision to protect software been included in
>>      the hardware?  Does C= think protectable software would hurt the
>>      Amiga in some way?
>
>Commodore would do well to think that hardware protection would hurt their
>market.  Then, people like me wouldn't buy their machines.  Would you?
>
>Sean

          Why wouldn't you buy a system that supported some kinda of 
       hardware protection?

          Lets suppose that the machine had a port on it made for a
       dongle, and that multiple dongles could be stacked upon one
       another.  The software publisher then buys a dongle assignment
       from the manufacturer (maybe recieves the dongles and an encoder
       program from them).
          To run the software you must have the dongle.  The computer
       manufacture could make the dongles expensive to copy in small
       quantities so that few would consider breaking the system through
       hardware.

          Assuming this would be feasible (I have not really thought it
       all the way through) it would mean

                A) cheaper software - because theft would be less of a
                                        factor

                        and

                B) more software -  because the buying market would be
                                        bigger.

        Both of which, in my mind, would be benificial.  Also, no one
        would have to protect their software, so PD/PA would still be
        as it is.


                                                        Thanks,


                                                                Wade.


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