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- From: ray@xrt.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jeff Ray)
- Subject: Re: Lemmings Copy Protection ARRGGHHH!!!
- Message-ID: <ray-191192125420@bear.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA (Dryden)/Woodside Summit
- References: <1992Nov19.185248.13569@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:09:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.185248.13569@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- mckay@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ruth Isabella McKay) wrote:
- >
- > What is the story with the program eventually stopping asking for a copy
- > prtotection lookup number ? Do you have to play the game 50 times first ?
- > I have played it a lot, but maybe by trashing the game and reloading it
- > I have reset the counter and eventually it will stop asking me ?
- >
- > Ruth
-
- I wasn't counting, but I don't think it was more than three or four times.
- I'm wondering about it's mechanism, though. I imagine it is watching it's
- own location on the hard drive, so if someone copies it, it would start
- asking for the password again. I'm wondering what happens the next time
- I run SpeedDisk...
-
- Anyway, assuming this copy protection scheme is indeed written to shut
- itself
- up, I applaud it. It's better than the "send in the reg card, get an
- unlock
- code" scheme, since I don't have to wait six weeks for the code.
-
- I submit that, like HotP, this will be another test of the Net's oft-spoken
- opposition of piracy, since there isn't any real need to patch this. Who's
- gonna be first? :)
-
- (I can see the flamers heating up...)
-
- Jeff Ray
-