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- From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
- Subject: Re: Copy Protection Information
- Message-ID: <downs.38.724643875@helios.nevada.edu>
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- References: <18580@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec17.134737.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1gqo1hINNb9h@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:57:55 GMT
-
- >
- >>Also, note that many people won't purchase/use copy-protected s/w. This
- >>is not because they are pirates or out to defraud you. In fact, the
- >>implicit assumption on the vendor's part that the customer is likely to
- >>be up to something nefarious can be sufficiently off-putting in itself.
- >
- >This is how I feel. I will NOT purchase ANYTHING that is copy protected
- >in any way, doc protection on games included. I have this moral thing
- >against pirating, and if someone copy protects software I take it
- >as an insult to my integrity; I feel as if they are saying 'You
- >are a criminal and we hate you. THIS should make your life more
- >difficult <ha ha ha>'.
- >
- Also, I refuse to buy any software that I can't make a backup copy of before
- even installing, for 2 reasons:
- 1)the obvious--I want my originals kept safe in case the installation
- program or a PC crash eats the working disks; and
- 2) by copying the disks I can verify that the disks themselves are not
- defective before I even begin installation.
-
- Lamont Downs
- downs@helios.nevada.edu
-