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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Questions (Sad, very sad)
Keywords: Dr. T
Message-ID: <749@cord.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 23:03:31 GMT
References: <10665@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <11435@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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In article <11435@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>In article <10665@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) writes:
>>Can anybody out there tell me whether Project D or any other
>>copy-protection buster, commercial or otherwise, is able to
>>copy any of the following software which I own and would like
>>to install on hard disk?:
>>
>>	Dr. T's KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) V1.6A
>>	Dr. T's MT-32 Patch Editor
>
>Of all the software companies out there, I'd have thought Dr. T's to be
>professional enough to allow hard disk installation. That's some very
>serious music software to be limiting users to floppy use.
>
>Not only that, but I understand that KCS is practically impossible to
>use without the manual because of it's sheer size.
>
>What a dissapointment. I was thinking of buying KCS sometime later this
>year.

First of all, I believe you can copy it to hard disk, it's just got a 
keydisk type of protection.  Still not good.

At the recent AmiExpo in NYC I had a talk with the head honcho from Dr. T
regarding this very issue.  I basically asked him if there were any chance
we'd ever see an unprotected Dr. T program, since the keydisk protection 
was at the time really the only thing keeping me from buying KCS.  He
said basically "No", since the market for such programs was small, and if
only a few hundred copies were pirated he'd feel it in his (and his employees')
wallet, and he knew for sure that it *would* be pirated, etc. etc.

I then asked if, given that, it would be possible to put in some kind of
protection that wouldn't require keeping the floppy around, perhaps a look-up
the-word-in-the-manual kind of thing.  He said no, they had surveyed their
users and found that they prefer the keydisk, since for performing artists
on stage it would be very inconvenient to have to keep the manuals laying
around in case that happened.

Sigh.

Still looking for the right sequencer,
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