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Subject: Re: Piracy
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Date: 28 May 89 01:05:16 GMT
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Network Comment: to #3967 by pnet01!crash!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!obsolete!pro-carolina!delton

> Of course, the real reason why we still have piracy is that no one has come
> up with a form of copy protection that will blow the head clean off anyone
> pirating a package.  Of course we're working on it though so stay tuned.

As long as there is a requirement for the computer to be able to read data
from an external storage medium, copy protection will be defeatable.  
It's just a question of how much time is involved to break it.  As long as
there are high school students, there will be people with the time and
expertise to crack these schemes.  Unfortunately, most protection schemes not
only don't work, but they interfere with the normal operation of the program. 
What's needed is less work on protection and more work on education.

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