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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 23:14:43 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Dirty rotten hacks
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4pas@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 27 Mar 96 Bruce Abbott wrote to All:
-
- BA> It is unfortunate that programmers have found it necessary to access
- BA> the disk drive hardware directly, but the general dishonesty of Amiga
- BA> users is largely to blame here. Disk copy protection is the only viable
- BA> way to prevent casual piracy ( manuals get photocopied, code wheels
-
- My, Sir, on which planet hast thou been living? Every disk-protected
- program so far has been cracked & spread in about, oh, say, three
- days at most. It has never ever bothered the pirates - indeed,
- it provided a challenge to them.
-
- Copy protection has proved to be utterly useless, only bothering the
- honest buyers of legally-aquired software. And if the copy-protection
- itself was a dirty hack that causes their game to break on newer
- Amigas, I think it is high time that the game companies provided
- them with an update. They owe their honest customers that much.
-
- BA> I am pleased to see that new games such as 'Gloom Deluxe' and
- BA> 'Breathless' are being designed to work in a system-friendly manner,
- and
- BA> I believe we have a responsibility to buy these games rather than
- BA> stealing them! Otherwise we will have to live with copy protection
- BA> and/or less new software for our machines.
-
- Indeed.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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