Author: Scott Woods
Date: 15:24:43 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 an acceptable form of copy protection of their software. However, Joe public generally believe that this is "shooting mice with cannons" Obviously copy protection is needed to ensure the programmers/ companies livelyhood. - no-one would argue that. ( tempting fate here ) However to have the CD inserted every time is just too much. There have been a lot of posts requesting "John Merlino" - the CM8K PR person here - to pass on the feelings of the CM community on this issue to the powers that be . ( I can't answer re: Shredder as I don't own it - however I believe the author posts here often enough - not sure if he has an influence on marketing though? - you can but try.) It is technically possible to circumvent the copy protection...( look hard enough on the web and I'm sure you will find something) This however, is not an action I would condone. What I would suggest is lobbying the author and marketing company involved - to review their copy protection routines to something more sensible in the next release. Quite simply - lobby and refuse to buy any future software that imposes such draconian measures as having the CD in 100% of the time. As the income dries up - the message will get through. Remember the only assets a software company has are... 1/ The intellectual property and most importantly... 2/ A customer base committed to buying 1/ Without 2 - Bankruptcy! A win-win situation? ==================== For example the copy protection in CM7K was perfect - every 15-20 days or so it would ask you for the CD. It prevents piracy ( you do need the CD ), people will buy the software; Chess software is pretty cheap really and the inconvenience factor is low [ the biggest reason for hacking the protection - and people scouring the web for a hack?] And best of all, people will not get the hump that they can't play chess and listen to "Bat out of Hell" at the same time. ;-) I dream of the day of doing such without having to swap CD's ad infinitim. Cheers Scott 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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