Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:35:56 09/08/00
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On September 08, 2000 at 00:14:33, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 06, 2000 at 17:19:44, John Merlino wrote: > >>-- Unfortunately, due to the powers that be at Mattel Interactive, CD 1 MIGHT be >>required EVERY TIME you start up the program, rather than the "CD Refresh" >>feature that was present in CM7000 and before. This is because it has been >>mandated that all new products use a copy protection scheme called SafeDisc. The >>development team is trying to get around it, but this year they just might not >>be able to get it under the radar. >>>> > >Hi John, > >Thanks for the update! > >I have to say that this last part of your note is a _major_ downer. Let's put >it this way: as one of the people who played games to help establish a rating, >I'm apparently to receive a free copy of the final product. Well, with that >kind of copy protection, there is no point in me even _bothering_ to install it, >because there's no way in uh, heck that I'm going to dig out the CD every time I >want to run the program. That would be absolutely ridiculous. > >I own a licence for Deep Junior 6, and while it has copy-protection (albeit >breakable -- and SafeDisc isn't any different, don't kid yourselves), it >generally only asks me to stick the CD in after I've made some hardware changes >or moved around my partitions or something low-level like that. (Perhaps it has >a once-a-month or something as well, but my machine is permanently open, so I've >never noticed that. ;-) Now, I can live with digging a disc out once in a >while, but... every time I use the program? That's just downright annoying -- >in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it would encourage CM fanatics with spare >time on their hands (i.e. not me!) to break it. > >Please encourage whoever to do whatever is necessary to avoid such an extreme >annoyance being placed on thousands of your customers. > >Dave It's already being done as often as possible. The development team doesn't want it. The producer doesn't want it. The powers that be DO want it. But, since it isn't on the beta discs being produced at this time, and nobody is complaining YET, it might just go through with just the CD Refresh code. jm
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