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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.160742.14902@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1992Nov18.111052.10914@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1edf33INN9qj@oak48.doc.ic.ac.uk> <marlow.722167900@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:07:42 GMT
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- In article <marlow.722167900@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk> marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk (Keith Marlow PG) writes:
- >
- > I know this doesn't stop two copies of the same program being used at
- >once, but it does make it possible for the person with the copy and the person
- >whose s/w was copied to be both done for illegal copying.
-
- I agree with you in principle, but many people must surely agree that it is
- *extremely* difficult to be 100% certain that nobody can ever rip-off copies
- of software which is registered to you. It is so easy for somebody to insert
- a floppy disc in your drive & sneak a quick copy.
-
- You might not believe how blatant some people are - for example a certain
- games company at the BBC Acorn User Show caught no end of people inserting
- their own floppies to steal copies of games off the hard discs at the show.
-
- Archimedes programs are sufficiently portable for the integrity of a person's
- system to be almost impossible to maintain unless NOBODY is allowed near that
- machine (and that includes Acorn exhibition machines, which contain much
- software licensed to Acorn Computers Ltd).
-
- Simon
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