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Re: Duplicating Coppy Protected Floppies

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From: Tom Stiller
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:58
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In article <85241@ut-emx.uucp>, ifby661@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Adam) writes:
> 
> Hello. I have just bought some MIDI software from Opcode, and the disks
> are coppy-protected. I have tried DiskCopy 4.2, DART, and some other
> disk-copying programs, and they all give me error -71 (I think). Well, I
> would like to make a back-up copy FOR MY OWN USE, and I dunno what to do.
>  Can anyone suggest some program that will let me do this? (Hopefully
> shareware/freewhere, and whre to get it)
> 

This problem and all the ones referenced are exaclty why I *always* recommend
against buying any copy protected software. I have never seen a copy protection
scheme that didn't cause some problem at a critical time in a demo schedule.

Tom Stiller
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