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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 84 15:22:46 pdt
From: Bill Croft <uw-beaver!croft@safe>
To: info-mac@sumex
Subject: posting instructions for copying 'protected' software
Cc: croft@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA, pattermann@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA

Info-mac has received several messages from folks explaining how to
copy 'protected' software.  We cannot release such messages for several
reasons:

First, it would open both you (the sender) and Stanford (the resender)
to lawsuit action by the software company.

Second, have you really thought out what happens when a copy-protection
scheme is exposed?  That's right, the schemes get more and more arcane
with disk speed changes, encrypted sector numbers, etc., etc.  Very soon
the protection scheme begins to interfere with the usability and
reliability of the distribution disks.  With the Macintosh this is even
more critical since resource files, fonts, the finder, etc. must operate
smoothly in a non-paranoid fashion.

Exposing the scheme is also self-defeating, since the company will soon
change it and thus you will no longer be able to copy the disks.

So please stop sending us such messages.  If you want to 'crack' a
protection scheme, consider it as a puzzle you have solved yourself;
if people can't figure out how to crack it on their own (or if they are
simply honest), then they SHOULDNT be copying it.

	--Bill Croft & Ed Pattermann