Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Summary: One more quickie; the purpose of copyable disks is to PROTECT.
Message-ID: <2509@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 88 18:10:18 GMT
References: <413@orbit.UUCP> <1396@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <1396@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:
>In article <413@orbit.UUCP>, swordfis@pnet51.cts.com (Tim Mitchell) writes:
>> Why should the paid users be made to suffer for the acts of the pirates?
>
>It's too bad about the disk, but it's not  necesserily  because  of  the
>copy  protection.  

Wrong.  (assume the worst - coffee spilled on the playing disk)

If the master disk was in the safe, where it should be, instead of the disk
drive, you would simply take the protected master copy (which is, of course,
also write-protected) out of the safe and make another working copy.  Then you 
return the master to the fireproof (and magnetically shielded, since it's 
make of ferrous metal) safe.

Elapsed time: < 5 minutes.  Risk?  If the original was ok to begin with, none.
You're playing again before your replacement cup of coffee can start to get
cold.

Try that when you have to mail the replacement halfway across the continent!

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Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, ddsw1!karl)
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