Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:08:35 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 22:02:37, Michael Cummings wrote:
>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.
If the CD is really copy-protected (which John is implicitely saying), then you
cannot burn a copy of it.
Christophe
>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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