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From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm)
Subject: Re: Copy protection, etc
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 10:41:39 GMT

In article <roger_earl.3395@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca> roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) writes:
>xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent the man from xanth) writes...
>
>>Lost Turrican I in four hours of play time, too.  Grrr.
>>Nuke Copy Protection! Up the Jolly Roger!
>
>Well I too am a bit upset over the horrors of copy protection.  I'm mad, I'm
>furious!  I'm scared of losing my only copy which I can't back up.  I really
>hate the idea that when I get a Hard Drive, many of my games cannot go on it.
> I'm also upset that my games don't multi-task.  Copy Protection sucks!
>It makes me want to go out and kick the #@#@%$! out of the people that caused
>this situation.  No, I'm not talking about the games developers or the
>software houses.  I'm talking about software pirates.  SOFTWARE PIRATES CAUSE
>COPY PROTECTION.  Don't anyone tell you any different.  Sure, we all hate
>having to pay for things.  I hate having to pay for my computer, but I didn't
>steal it!

this is nothing more than the same arguments rehashed by software companies.
If you removed all copy protection, im quite sure you will not have as much 
piracy as you have now. It will still exist but I think more people would 
indeed be inclined to purchase the software. I know alot of pirates for the 
Amiga and who were pirates on the old commodore 64 and copy protection was the
#1 reason why they said they would not or did not buy software. I also dont 
think games should cost more than $30 unless they are large and very nice.


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