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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple
Message-ID: <9354@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 89 19:40:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <486@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> kornellm@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Mark Kornell) writes:
>	No, No, No.  I hate copy protection!  (Besides, just about all
>	protection schemes on the Apple are soooo easy to break).  I'm
>	not into pirating either, but all copy-protection does is drive
>	up software prices, and as a student, I'm on a limited budget
>	as it is.

I don't like "copy protection" either, if it makes backup or transfer
to hard disk impractical.  Fortunately many software publishers have
figured out ways to use accessory, often hard-to-reproduce, documentation
as the "key" for protection against piracy.

I don't think you can make a rational case for "copy protection driving
up software prices".  Certainly that is not the opinion of software
publishers.