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@f02@t4@cSCENE EXPERTS
@t5@f00Let me say something before I will
bore you with another article about
the scene. I am not claiming that I'm
an expert of the scene, but an
experience of over three years (not so
much compared to oldies) is probably
enough to be able to write this
article. This article is based partly
upon an article called 'Szene heute'
in a German magazine called 'Amiga
Special'. I have quite strong
suspicions that the writer is a member
of the scene him self. Lots of things
he claims are wrong,however. Let's
go...
Some software houses, so the author
claims, protect their games too good,
@^
so that sometimes the game won't even
run on the machine of an honest buyer.
That's very true and there's nothing
that can be done against it. But I do
not think that a guy who bought a game
just to find out that it didn't work,
will try to obtain an illegal copy
(mostly because the cracked versions
won't work as well..). It's mainly
the other way round, crackers say: A
game worth playing is a game worth
buying. Take for example the crappy
cracks of some adventure style games
in the past. It would be better to
buy these games, even if it were only
because of the splendid manual you
would get with it. He continues with
the fact that utilities sell very
@#
@^
@t5well, compared to games. That's not
completely true, however, since it's
mostly only the manual that is sold,
the manual that explains the working
of the program and without which the
program is almost unuseable. If the
manual is not too complicated or too
long, the people will go for the
pirate version. This is of course
also caused by the immense prices of
good utilities, like DPaint or Word
Perfect. OK, DPaint is quite unique,
but I dare say that there are lots of
WP-clones that are much better and
much cheaper. Here is an explanation
for the major run on PD software (Fred
Shit etc...). Some programs are done
by real talented coders and are very
cheap !! I don't think that the much
used copy protection in the style of
asking for a certain word in a certain
@^
@t5paragraph of the manual that comes
with the program is good.It's actually
terrible. Hackers have absolutely no
problems with removing this protection
(give or take a few exceptions) but
for the honest buyer it's a real pain
in the ass It namely requires that you
have the manual within reach every
time you boot the disc. Just suppose
that you have twenty programs that use
this protection. You need to search
the correct book, the right page, the
right paragraph,the right word. That
takes a lot of time and it's getting
frustrating in a small period of time.
I can't imagine that honest buyers
will appreciate this. It takes a lot
of experience before you can write
well, in such a manner that you can
convince the readers of you being
right. But this matter, the one of
@#
@^
@t5piracy, is a very complicated one.
People connected to a softwarehouse or
professional magazines will al ways
accuse the pirate, the pirates will
always say something against it. So a
message to all you stupid reporters of
magazines (the real, paper ones
ofcourse!): Stop writing about
piracy. It won't stop and there's a
lot more going on than you can ever
think to be possible...
@t3 Cybersonik
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