Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:43:07 10/09/00
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On October 10, 2000 at 00:50:26, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On October 09, 2000 at 23:08:35, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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
>
>How much money would you like to lose on that opinion? :-)
>
>The truth is that copy-protection gives software distributors a false sense of
>security.
>
>Dave
I know a lot of people around me who will be stopped if they cannot copy a CD
with their usual CD-copy software.
That's enough to stop 80% of the piracy.
The more advanced guys will manage to copy it, but anyway:
1) they are not going to use the product (they are too busy spending their days
and nights cracking softwares)
2) they would not have bought it anyway
3) if they sell it they will have problems, at least here
Christophe
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