Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wsccs!terry
From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection etc
Message-ID: <242@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 04:40:59 GMT
References: <10332@mimsy.UUCP> <2239@zaphod.UUCP>
Lines: 28
Summary: We have one

In article <2239@zaphod.UUCP>, dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) asks:
>     +----------------------------------------------------------------+
>     |                                                                |
>     |   If a software protection scheme existed that produced        |
>     |   no hardships to the honest user and only acted to prevent    |
>     |   people from obtaining the software by means other than       |
>     |   purchasing it, would you support that form of software       |
>     |   protection?                                                  |
>     |                                                                |
>     +----------------------------------------------------------------+


	Yes.  We have one.

	I still think obtrusive copy protection is stupid.  If I wanted
to hear calypso music, I would put it on the stereo, *not* my disk drive
...stick in the alignment disk, stick in the calypso disk, stick in the
alignment disk, stick in the calypso disk...


		DOWN WITH CALYPSO DISKS!


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