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From: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Game Updates (was Re: Falcon)
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Date: 10 Jan 89 14:17:40 GMT
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In article <84481@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>Here is a silly idea, what if Game manufacturers always sent two disks with
>their games. One "backup" and one play disk. Then if your disk ever went
>bad you could switch to the backup and immediately send off the play disk
>to get it fixed. The only danger being that the backup may fail before the
>play disk was repair...
>--Chuck McManis

Heres an even sillier idea.  How about if they just don't copy protect
software?  Copy protection doesn't slow down pirates much anyways, it
just keeps honest people from getting the full use of their purchases.

	 					   --Rob.

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