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Article #23503Re: Copy protection and the consumer
From: Bruce Florman
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1988 20:22
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1988 20:22
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> >Personally, I refuse to buy copyprotected software. The only exception to
> >[ . . many good reasons to buy legitimately . . ]
>
> I also avoid copy protected software like the plague. Especially
> when there are plenty of excellent unprotected products to choose
> from.
> Scott Chou
At the MacHack conference in Ann Arbor last year, Dave Feldt made a
suggestion about "the only legitimate use of copy protection." If a
program is launched off the original disk, the program should detect this
and put up an alert that says: "Hey Stupid! This is the original disk!
Make a copy and use that!"
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