Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 17:27:37 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 20:16:11, Vincent Vega wrote: >On October 09, 2000 at 17:50:04, John Merlino wrote: > >> >>CM8000 IS DEFINITELY going to require a CD at all times, thanks to a mandate >>from "on high". Those in charge of these decisions seem to feel that copy >>protection is rampant (apparently, even more rampant than ever before), and that >>Chessmaster (and all other products) will lose HUGE amounts of sales due to >>piracy. Whether this is true or not will never be known, of course. But, there >>it is.... There will be copy-protection on both CDs, and the program will not >>run unless you have a CD drive in on startup (or can produce one when asked at >>startup). >> > >I think this is a bad decision. For legitimate users, having to put in a CD >will be an inconvenience and may create some bad will when it comes to upgrading >to the next version. This should be pretty important to Mattel, as Chessmaster >is a very good brand name. Hard-core pirates will not be hurt at all - whatever >copy protection scheme is used, will be broken in at most a week and the cracked >program will be available to them on the Net. "Casual" pirates will be stopped, >but they would also be stopped by a simpler copy protection requiring the CD >just during the installation. > >Software piracy is quite impossible to fight today, but it could be virtually >eliminated in the future if the users go along with it. Future programs could >require Internet connection and some server processing during every run. Some >multi-player games already do it today, but for other types of programs >requiring an active Net connection is harder to justify.
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