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Article #344Re: Copy Protection
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 00:20
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 00:20
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In article <1992Aug6.192748.26868@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes: > > Copy protection doesn't work either. No copy protection exists or > will exist that stops piracy. New copy protection schemes just feed > the fire and inconvenience users more. Copy protection works pretty well, actually. Just because a few clever people can spend the time needed time to break some schemes doesn't support your statement that it doesn't work. I have had no problems typing in a license string to register various software on our systems (except for MMa, which was a more involved pain), and no problems with the software working after it was registered. I like the fact that I can give a copy to someone else and it will run as a demo until registered. -- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy" New Haven, CT nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Copy Protection Message-ID: <1992Aug9.002030.2671@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobi.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Aug6.192748.26868@cubetech.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1992 00:20:30 GMT Lines: 23