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From: rcb@rti.UUCP (Random)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection etc
Message-ID: <2058@rti.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 14:22:46 GMT
References: <10332@mimsy.UUCP> <2239@zaphod.UUCP> <5520@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2062@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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In article <2062@saturn.ucsc.edu> alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg) writes:
>... Although this is easy to bypass (copy it before
>you run it.) It still works. Anybody who goes to the extent of doing this is
>obviosuly a career pirate, and thereofre wouldn't have bought the program in
>the first place, so a sale isn't lost. Follow???

I would have to disagree with this conclusion. When I buy software,
the VERY FIRST thing I do is 
	-lock the disk
	-copy the disk
	-put original away
	-Try out copy to see if/how it works.

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