Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Moebius patch (deprotection) Message-ID: Date: 5 May 89 01:06:04 GMT References: Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: > software publishers loose significant portion of sales due to piracy I would have to disagree with this; I know of far more people who will simply refuse to buy a package that is copy protected-- no matter how high of quality it is. I am one of them, but in the case of Moebius, I will keep it around because I think I was able to make my point by dealing with company... They know their software's copy protection is costing them sales. This will also be mentioned in the review I am writing (which will also be forwarded to the company). There is NO reason to copy protect software; it costs the company sales, annoys the users that try to put up with it, and disrupts normal computer usage. It, in no way, prevents piracy-- from the experience of knowing the Apple II piracy world in its prime (remember the AE-Pro lines?), it was often the case to try and spread copy-protected software as much as possible while the non-copy-protected software was rarely distributed. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu