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Sheizaf Rafaeli writes:

> I can't claim finders credit for "discovering" software theft.  
> Anecdotal evidence is widely available (e.g. PERSONAL COMPUTING, May 
> 1987). More verifiably, one can cite three major sources of evidence: 
> surveys, legal literature, epidemiology.

You misunderstand.  What I was commenting on was not software theft, 
which is indisputably endemic in this world of personal computers,
but the effects of copy protection schemes to prevent such theft.
For this, I have seen no reliable studies done, and my experience
working in a large computer game company (Epyx) tended to show that
no such studies were felt to be necessary - it was accepted without
data that copy protection was necessary, even with the full knowledge
that our games were being cracked within days of their release.

Michael J. Farren