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Subject: Re: Don'´t propagate against copy protections

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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