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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: pirating, etc.
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Date: 22 Mar 88 04:20:42 GMT
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buyse@convex.UUCP writes:
>
>Personally, I believe pirating to be a much less severe issue in the last
>couple of years as compared with the early eighties.  More and more
>makers of excellent software are dropping copy protection schemes, and
>the purchasers of this software no longer need to deprotect the software
>in order to make archival backups for legitimate purposes.

I suspect that developers are seeing that there is just as much piracy going
on without protection as with protection and have discovered how to live with
piracy at this level.  If piracy is a constant you might still discover you
can increase your sales by lowering your prices or taking other marketing
tacts.
 
Bill

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