Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:22:09 10/11/00
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> First off, the chessmaster program is not something that people will really > want to pirate. Not like Adobe, Macromedia, Symantec and other more expensive > well know applications. > >Its a cheap program and thus less likely people will bother copying it. Lets >face it how many people play chess, let alone buy a chess program. This is not likely to be true. The cost of the program has little to do with how often it is pirated. Mostly, it's the TYPE and POPULARITY of the software that affects how often it is pirated (both on a personal and on a large black-market scale) Games, of course, are the most likely to be pirated. >You tell whoever is in charge, to get off their high horse. Chessmaster >programs are not that much in demand you know to worry about high levels of >piracy. Unfortunately, this is also not true, mostly in the Asian markets, where large-scale black-market piracy is rampant. This is (theoretically) one of the main reasons for the copy protection. Now, you know and I know that a truly dedicated pirate/hacker can get anything copied. Just try telling the decision-makers that.... jm
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