Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mfci!hsi!derek
From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Piracy
Message-ID: <221@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 18:32:26 GMT
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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I don't have an amiga, but I been reading the messages in this group.
Especially the ones about piracy.

I have seen several suggestions put forward as to how to prevent it. I think
it's useless. Regardless of how stringent the methods, there would always be
someone who can crack it. Once it's been cracked, it would be up on
pirate boards where almost anybody, regardless of their computer knowledge
would have acess to it.

I used to pirate software a while back (I don't do it any more). Most of the
software I pirated was obtained off pirate boards. About 50% of it 
originally had some form of copy protection which was cracked.

Why did I do it??. Simply for the fun of it. I would usually play a game
once (I don't like games) and just put the disk aside to collect dust. In
other, it's not as though I was going to buy it in the first place.

The only program I ever used regularly was a Pascal compiler, which I did
buy. All other software usually got used once, or maybe twice if I enjoyed
it.

 

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