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Article #6520Re: Copy Protection Information
From: Dan Odom
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:30
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:30
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cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes: >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>'. -- Dan Odom danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!matt.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Dan Odom) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Copy Protection Information Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:30:41 -0600 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1gqo1hINNb9h@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <18580@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec17.134737.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu