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Subject: Shooting mice with cannons.

Author: Scott Woods

Date: 14:51:50 04/17/01

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Hi Gerard,

This subject is much discussed on this site.....

The marketing companies that produce the software believe that this is a
suitable form of copy protection of their software.

However, Joe public generally believe that this is "shooting mice with cannons"

On April 17, 2001 at 16:32:26, Gerald Grimsley wrote:

>Hello, I just bought a new computer and installed my chess programs, including
>the Shredder 5 group, and CM8000.  My questions is that everytime I go to use
>these programs, the computer asks for the original disk to be in the CD ROM
>drive.
>
>This does not happen with shredder on my other computer with WIN98.  I do not
>have CM8000 installed on that one to check it either.  Any thoughts in general
>as to why the computer would ask for the original disk to be in place when this
>should not be necessary?
>Thanks in advance,
>Gerald Grimsley



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