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From: florman@randvax.UUCP (Bruce Florman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer
Message-ID: <1289@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 20:22:06 GMT
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> >Personally, I refuse to buy copyprotected software.  The only exception to
> >[ . . many good reasons to buy legitimately . . ]
> 
> I also avoid copy protected software like the plague.  Especially
> when there are plenty of excellent unprotected products to choose
> from.

> Scott Chou

    At the MacHack conference in Ann Arbor last year, Dave Feldt made a
suggestion about "the only legitimate use of copy protection."  If a
program is launched off the original disk, the program should detect this
and put up an alert that says: "Hey Stupid!  This is the original disk!
Make a copy and use that!"
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