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From: richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: About Software Piracy!
Summary: A question about piracy
Message-ID: <1356@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 20:29:48 GMT
References: <1962@houxa.UUCP>
Organization: Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek CA
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In article <1962@houxa.UUCP>, shah1@houxa.UUCP (J.SHAH) writes:
> software you buy legally). Why should I be encumbered with these schemes
> after paying a reasonable amount of money for acquiring your software.
> Besides there will always be a way to break copy protection schemes. C-64
> software vendors used dongles (Batteries Included for example) but only
> to find out that some hardworking hackers produced a freely copyable version
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> of their heavyly protected software. I have seen hardware devices that
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> assist in the copying of protected software ( Snapshot, and Icepic for the 


	If a person BUYS a copy of program X and then downloads a copy of
	program X that is not copyprotected from a hacker's BBS to use on a
	harddisk or for making backups, is he still considered a pirate?
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