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From: harley@hyper.UUCP (Harley Grantham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer
Message-ID: <1108@hyper.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 21:12:26 GMT
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Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN
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Summary: Copy Protection, is it still needed?


The current discussion of dongels and such brings forth the following
question:

I thought copy-protection was going out of style.  Particularly as
companies write more expensive software for businesses.  Businesses do
not (according to the article I read several months ago in Infoworld)
pirate software because it is too easy to get caught.  Individuals do
not represent a significant part of the market for such expensive
programs.  Game makers still have the problem, as individuals are their
primary market.  Has this changed or is copy protection still on the
decline??

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Harley H. Grantham, ihnp4!umn-cs!hyper!harley,  Network Systems Corporation