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Subject: Re: CM8000 -- Some news

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 19:02:37 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 17:50:04, John Merlino wrote:

>Chessmaster 8000 is still on schedule to be finished early next week, and be in
>the stores by early November.
>
>Unfortunately, I have some news which some of you will probably find upsetting.
>So, just so you can't say that you weren't warned....
>
>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

Considering that most new PC's also have cd burners, this cd copy protection
will soon be a waste of time. People will just copy the cd and give them to
other people. Its getting to a stage where technology is getting to fast for
protection to be effective.

Even though I do not participate in it, you can basically get a full blown
version of any software you want off the net. I have seen a site that has
avaiable for download all Adobe, Symantec and macromedia programs, all which
would cost 10's of thousands of dollars if you bought them all. All you can get
for free, or steal if you want to get correct about it.



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