Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:38:08 10/12/00
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On October 11, 2000 at 18:46:23, Paulo Soares wrote: >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 This is mainly because Chessmaster is marketed as a video game, while the other programs don't have nearly the same markey recgonition. So, the pirates don't know about the other engines. (To a lesser extent anyway.) JW
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