Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!mitchell From: mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Pirates! by MicroProse (not a review, a complaint, please read) Message-ID: <9258@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 9 Jan 90 09:50:54 GMT References: <84978@linus.UUCP> <1031@pmafire.UUCP> <1990Jan5.055220.4463@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 16 Ugh! Copy Protection! I have recently purchased a game that was so heavily copy-protected that it would not boot AT ALL on my hardware configuration! UGH! I say we boycott ALL copy-protected software on ALL machines until the developers change the name of their tune. Being a developer, myself, I can understand the concerns of both sides of the fence- but it's ridiculous when the software won't run THE FIRST TIME!!! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( This annoyance must stop NOW! -Mitchell mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP Take no ____ from anyone! (fill in the blank with your favorite four-letter expletive.)