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From: del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone infected by "Brain" virus?
Message-ID: <999@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 88 18:58:24 GMT
References: <1380@holos0.UUCP> <3644@dad.UUCP> <295@wuibc.UUCP>
Reply-To: del@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <295@wuibc.UUCP> dwd0238@wucec1.wustl.bitnet (David Deitch) writes:

>	First, All major software manufacturers no longer copy protect
>their software, a sign that they do not perceive software piracy as the
>major threat it used to be.  Second, the rapid expansion of Fidonet and
>
>		David Deitch, Computer Connection
>		dwd0238@wucec1.wustl.bitnet
>		Fido 1:100/22


Actually, it was my distinct impression that the decision to drop copy
protection was primarily motivated by the outrage and protests of
legitimate, paying customers over the unreliability and difficulty of
using copy protected software. Not to mention a gradual realization that
the "code breakers" had become so sophisticated as to make copy protection
pointless on any program popular enough to be worth pirating. I doubt if
software piracy has diminished a whole lot, if not increased...

-- 
del (Erik Lindberg) 
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