Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 04:07:21 10/10/00
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On October 10, 2000 at 05:42:34, Steve Maughan wrote: >John, > >Thanks for the update! > >Here's an 'off the wall' idea - why don't you suggest that Mindscape produce >their own crack for CM8000 so that it doesn't need the CD! The 'crack / patch' >need not be widely publicised. > >The logic is as follows. The copy protection is only really meant to stop the >casual 'pirate'. If the crack was not widely publicised then 99.9% of the >casual pirate probably wouldn't find out about it. The determined hackers will >crack it anyway and probably distribute the crack on the internet - so it >wouldn't affect them. Then there are the chess computer fans - i.e. us. We >would be able to use CM8000 freely on laptops etc. > >I must say that if CM 8000 has some mechanism whereby you can't simply burn a >copy then I think asking for the CD every time is overkill (IMHO). > >Anyway - looking forward to testing the latest version of The King - the first >new version in two years!! > >Regards, > >Steve Maughan Its really quite diffcult to copy protect cds now. You can use several differnt copy protection schemes, but there ways to deafeat them, and the new ones are beaten quite quickly. The pirates out there have guys that are quite bright and stuff. Not to mention you can also just CloneCD a cd, which is a bit by bit copy of a cd. Exact duplicate of the orginal, but not all burners support this. JW
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