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From: hugo@bigtime.fidonet.org (Hugo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: wanted- copy protection
Message-ID: <360.247DF32B@bigtime.fidonet.org>
Date: 26 May 89 21:01:00 GMT
Organization: Big Time Television
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You can buy copy protection programs from the original PROLOK company 
which nearly went under when Quaid software came onto the market in 
Canada.  Other options can be found in the back of PC Magazine in the 
classifieds, most of which are furnished on a disk that you put your 
programs on and then copy-protect the programs with a command.  
Unfortunately you have to buy each disk separately since you cannot 
copy them.  They work but can easily be broken with programs such as 
CopyWrite (Quaid).  The obvious question is why would anyone bother 
with the protection in this age of incompatibility.  I find copy 
protection to be a royal pain for us honest users and a mere temporary 
inconvenience for pirates.  If the program is that good, it will sell 
and the documentation will sell with it.  Try the mail-order markets or 
the shareware options or approach a good development company if it is 
that good.  And copyright your program first!
                                                Hugo
--  
Larry Hughes
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