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Subject: Re: How to make CD copy protection nicer!

Author: Don Prohaska

Date: 07:44:06 03/30/98

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With the pirates out in full force and new CD technology I think that CD
Copy protection might be out dated already. The hated Dongle might be
the only way. I've already been sent a CD of a CD program that was
copied. It worked on my system but had difficulties on another system.
No, I didn't keep the CD. Probably because I had no use for that
software, but since I don't believe in piracy I doubt whether I would
have kept it if I had a use for it.

On March 30, 1998 at 03:21:06, Jouni Uski wrote:

>There seems to be two kind of copy protection among CDs:
>1) Insert CD after 20 days (e.g. Mchess)
>2) Insert CD after 20 program starts (e.g. Nimzo 98)
>
>This second method is much comfortable. Lets say You use program once in
>week, with 1) You need to insert CD 18 times in year, but with 2) only
>3 times. I hope, that all coming CD's use 2) way!



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