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From: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (christopher wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: copy protection
Message-ID: <1554@nvuxr.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 23:08:42 GMT
References: <1113@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <15800090@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (22456-christopher wood)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, NJ
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In article <15800090@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122dc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU writes:

[ justification for no copy protection trimmed ]

>I have to agree with you, to some extent not allowing people to place 
>programs on hard drives is a pain, but you have to look at it from a
>marketing standpoint.  If you don't protect the program, SOMEONE is going
>to copy it (and not just for the sake of having a back-up either).  For
>every copy of AppleWorks out there that was sold legitimately, how many
>illegal copies do you think there are? (and at around $200 a crack, that's
>a lot of profit loss).  Aside from that, I don't see where copy protection
>truly affects a program's overall performance, except during disk activity.

Are you playing devil's advocate, or what?  Appleworks is not copy
protected.  I started with a pirated version.  After a month of doing
useful, productive work with it (with no manual!  Ease of use!) I was so
impressed that I bought the program.  Ans shelled out the $50 for an
upgrade (to 2.0, I think).

Copy protection forces hardships on your legitimate customers to prevent
unscrupulous people from using a program without paying for it. 
Unscrupulous people probably have copy ][+, so copy protection doesn't
do any good, and pisses off your paying customers.

Program performance is many things.  Even "kley disk" programs are
enough of a hassle that many users feel that they don't perform.

>As for better games and such... the more the machine has to deal with, the
 [trimmed]
>	Randy Vose
>	cs122dc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

>"Remember: Where ever you go, there you are..."


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