Author: Harald Faber
Date: 15:12:37 06/09/98
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On June 06, 1998 at 02:14:26, Georg Langrath wrote: >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. Sad but true, but did it really happen? Ed, how many copies did you sell less of Rebel9 than of Rebel8? >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! Totally agree. >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! Only if there is no way to copy the CD. ;-) >Don’t propagate against copy protection. It is suicide. >Georg We shouted so loud so that in the meantime the c.p. became much better.
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