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> software publishers loose significant portion of sales due to piracy

I would have to disagree with this; I know of far more people who will simply
refuse to buy a package that is copy protected-- no matter how high of quality
it is.

I am one of them, but in the case of Moebius, I will keep it around because
I think I was able to make my point by dealing with company...  They know
their software's copy protection is costing them sales.  This will also
be mentioned in the review I am writing (which will also be forwarded to the
company).
There is NO reason to copy protect software; it costs the company sales,
annoys the users that try to put up with it, and disrupts normal computer
usage.  It, in no way, prevents piracy-- from the experience of knowing the
Apple II piracy world in its prime (remember the AE-Pro lines?), it was often
the case to try and spread copy-protected software as much as possible while
the non-copy-protected software was rarely distributed.

b.bum
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