Author: Martin Grabriel
Date: 19:13:36 12/12/99
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I doubt people who get the downloaded copies are getting 100% of the program. Book and other add-ons may be absent, inability to implement subsequent patch (because orignal CD is required) is also possible. The loss to the publisher is when someone who intended to buy original stumbles across a fake and bought the fake instead. There is no loss if someone who bought the fake has no intention to buy the original at all whether there was a fake or not. Anyway, illegal is illegal, no matter how you see it. Even myself, I used a certain chess shareware without sending the $20 to the author. That shareware is very good, very clean black and white GUI and its moving by the mouse is smoother than some commercial programs, it imports PGN and replay them, play a strong game (around 1800-2000), it is portable (i.e. you can copy it in a diskette and carry it around), it makes no silly mistakes at "easy" mode, windows-based, excellent piece set, available at gambitsoft site, start with the letter "W" and is version 1.6, etc. To be fair to the author, I will stop using it since I didn't pay for such an excellent shareware. On December 12, 1999 at 07:45:57, O. Veli wrote: >On December 11, 1999 at 23:13:25, Coconuts2000 wrote: >> >>6 was also a victim. Chess is becoming more popular, and because of this, there >>is a high demand for chess software. Protection is very pointless; anything and > > People who buy cracked software should also be blamed. If chess is becoming >popular, and if you do not want to pay money, than you should stick with a >freeware. Rebel Decade 2 will beat most if not all of people who want to play >chess but who are not tournament players. They should be satisfied with it. On >the other hand, if they want the strongest then they should chip in. If you do >not like DOS, then stick with Crafty + Winboard. There is no difference between >Fritz6 and Decade 2 for such players, since both programs are too strong for >them. > > Of course these people do not know about these programs. PC World gave Chess >IT as a top chess program! Can you believe that? I think that programmers should >make freeware versions of their programs, such as Decade 2, and send it to top >computer magazines to be distributed in their CDs. That way general public will >learn more about the programs, and hopefully decide to buy the stronger full >version. If you have Fritz Light, say different from Fritz 6 only in playing >strenght, I highly doubt that people would be willing to pay anything for a >cracked version of Fritz 6. > > I recently bought CT-ART 3 and a friend of mine liked the demo very much. He >asked for the CD so that he can copy it. This guy does not need the CD, it is >too sophisticated for him, yet he sees nothing wrong with this! > >>coming soon and chess tiger. It's not fair for the people who make them, but >>what can be done? > > Remember the ugly dongle ChessBase 6 came with? Physical copy protection.
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