Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 23:14:26 06/05/98
In the poll, there is a question: Do you feel it is necessary for chess programs to be copy protected in some way? Necessary for the programmer or me? Both! If the programmer products are stolen, they can’t get enough money, and the program will be more expensive, or the author will stop programming. Another fact is that the copy protection can be more or less comfortable. I should never in my life buy a program that you can install only a certain number! Never! In Rebel 8, you sometime had to install the program once again after defrag. And you could not back it up! Think if every program would be in that way. No upbacking of you programs! The copy-protection in Rebel 9 is perfect. You can defrag without problems. And you can back it up. You only notice it, when you will put it to another computer without the CD. And that is the perfect copy protection! In Fritz 5, you have to put in the CD after 14 times. When you have done that a certain number of times it will be 20 times. That is not very hard work, but the copy protection of Rebel 9 is better. Don’t propagate against copy protection. It is suicide. Georg
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