Copy Protection

[zscoundrel]

Yeah, when I first got started working with PC's, back in the days 
before it was call piracy,  I had a friend give me TONS of copied 
software.  I examined most of it and bought my own copies of the stuff I 
liked. and could actually AFFORD!!!  Mostly, I bought it for the 
manuals, but often, to get the latest version, because software was 
REALLY buggy back then.

My point is, had it not been for that "unofficial" test drive, I would 
never have purchased multiple versions of a number of popular software 
packages.

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> They tried copy protection on software a while back.  Didn't work, pissed
> people off, cut into sales.  The scheme's coming back now, as with
> Microsoft, and the refusal to allow drive "cloning" to distribute software.
> It's pissing people off again.
> 
> I think the confusion between commercial piracy, where people are _selling_
> bootleg copies of original works, and sharing, where the people who end up
> with the copies do not have them in place of something they would have
> bought, but would never have had them if they had to purchase them, is
> stupid to overlook as the publishers have.  Easy to go after the little guy.
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jim Herrmann [mailto:JimH at ItDepends.com]
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>>When CDs are all copy protected, I will no longer buy any.  
>>Even though I don't copy the ones I have now, I can't support the 
>>restriction that that mentality represents.
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> A good friend had a bunch of CD's stolen on a trip once.  He now keeps the
> originals at home and only travels with copies.  Yeah, sure, if he gets
> ripped off again, the RIAA "looses" the revenue for his replacements.  They
> would rather go after him then they guy who stole the CD's.
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