Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 15:46:23 10/11/00
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On October 11, 2000 at 18:22:09, John Merlino wrote: >> 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 The chess program more pirated in Brazil it is, without doubt, Chessmaster. The other programs are not very well-known. Paulo
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