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Article #23520Re: Copy protection and the consumer
From: Harley Grantham
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1988 21:12
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1988 21:12
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The current discussion of dongels and such brings forth the following question: I thought copy-protection was going out of style. Particularly as companies write more expensive software for businesses. Businesses do not (according to the article I read several months ago in Infoworld) pirate software because it is too easy to get caught. Individuals do not represent a significant part of the market for such expensive programs. Game makers still have the problem, as individuals are their primary market. Has this changed or is copy protection still on the decline?? -- Harley H. Grantham, ihnp4!umn-cs!hyper!harley, Network Systems Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!hyper!harley From: harley@hyper.UUCP (Harley Grantham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer Message-ID: <1108@hyper.UUCP> Date: 21 Jan 88 21:12:26 GMT References: <4663@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <3823@husc6.harvard.edu> <1319@looking.UUCP> Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 16 Summary: Copy Protection, is it still needed?