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Article #879Re: blizzards unacceptable behaviour
From: Dark Half
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:00
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DLaflin wrote:
> Regardless, no company has a right to access personal info you store
> on your personal computer, plus there ARE ways to get around the
> CD-R.. for one a very good baseball Sim requires one either insert
> a KEY disk you get with game..with option to transfer once the copy
> prot to the HD, or just use key disk always.
>
> If your transfered CP is messed up, you then need use key disk each
> time play.
>
> You cant copy the floppy either.
>
> The Copy Prot is a nusience, but my point is it is a non invasive
> scheme, plus one could copy that CRrom..but without the KEY Disk
> your copys useless.
Actually, IMO, this copy-protection method is *horrible*... See, the key
disk is on floppy, and uncopiable... Data on floppies is known to go
corrupt... A lot faster than data on CDs... So, you'll have a good CD,
but a corrupt key disk, thus making the CD useless...
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