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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: How do you make a master disk?
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 09:36:34 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <1992Nov11.161005.23758@kth.se>
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- In article <1992Nov11.161005.23758@kth.se> petrus@stacken.kth.se (Lars Petrus) writes:
- > Some software products are sold on disks that can not be copied - or so
- >I'm told. This means that you can have an installer program on that disk,
- >and only allow a limited number of installations from that disk.
- >
- > But I can not see any way that this can be accomplished. If you copy a disk
- >you copy every byte of is, and thats that.
-
- This is only one of the reasons why Apple explicitly discourages the
- use of copy protection schemes - all of them can be defeated.
-
- I may disagree with Apple in many points, but I feel to that copy
- protection is a Bad Thing.
-
- olaf
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