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From: moonhawk@bluemoon.uucp (David Culberson)
Subject: Re: Animation Journeyman: Wayne Knapp's Reply
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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 21:39:34 EDT

waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp) writes:

> I meant that we are NOT going to sell non-copy protected versions of JMan.
> Every copy must be personalised, or it isn't shipped.  This is our way of
> protecting our investment.  (Don't try to convince me that there is not
> any illegal coping of software in the Amiga market.  It is just as bad as
> the IBM/Mac markets.)

        Wait. Think about it. Do you think that someone who could AFFORD 
to spend $500 on a software product would pirate it? I think not, he would 
want the support, the manual, and the tech. help that he gets from buying 
the product in the stores. If someone is a pirate, I SINCERELY doubt that 
he could afford the $500 that JMAN costs. He wouldn't buy it, even if he 
couldn't pirate it. He would do without. Do you think that, just because 
someone can
't copy it off a friend, that the $500 is going to magically appear in his 
wallet? Just my experience with pirates is that they couldn't, and 
wouldn't buy the SW no matter HOW great the price, or HOW hard the 
protection is. These guys THRIVE on protection. Do you honestly think your 
protection is so innovative that the thousands of pirates out there can 
never break it? And, once it's broken, the unprotected version will spread 
like wildfire. No bull.
                                David

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