Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!apple!bbn!aoa!carl From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Moebius patch (deprotection) Message-ID: <791@aoa.UUCP> Date: 11 May 89 11:59:18 GMT References: <538@biar.UUCP> <24147@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA Lines: 23 In article <24147@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes: >In article <538@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes: >(stuff deleted) >> The main reason for the decline in copy protection is 1) the prevalence >> of hard disks and 2) the decline in level of technical literacy in the >> marketplace. >I thought that the major reason for the decline in copy protection was the >fact that any update of Apple System software and/or new versions of the >ROMs would almost certainly break most forms of copy protection. Apple For several years now, the Armed Svcs (and quite possibly all gov't labs) have specifically refused to buy any software that was copy protected. They didn't want to be hung up trying to copy to hard disks, re-copying things which got munged, etcetc. I'm sure this was part of the reason mfrs stopped doing it. -- Alix' Dad ( Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates) " Axis-navigo, ergo sum." {harvard,ima}!bbn!aoa!carl 54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201 "disclaimer? I'm not a doctor, but I do have a Master's Degree in Science!"