Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:35:30 09/22/02
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On September 21, 2002 at 23:04:05, John Merlino wrote:
>On September 21, 2002 at 21:13:37, Rick Terry wrote:
>
>>I am a Registered owner of Chessmaster 9000, I would like to make a backup copy
>>for personal use, is this legal? If so can someone send me a email on which
>>program to use to copy this CD? I am currently using easy CD Creator 5 Platonium
>>but it fails to copy a installable CD. Help please!
>
>This is a very sticky situation. You DO have a legal right to make a backup
>copy. Conversely, the program publishers have a right to (attempt to) prevent
>piracy, and this is usually done by adding copy protection to the CDs.
>
>This fight is well over 10 years old, and I don't expect it will ever truly end.
>
>Anybody remember some games that were put on floppies that had actual physical
>deformities (bad sectors, or even pinpoint holes!) built into the floppies so
>they could not be copied?
>
>jm
The first floppy versions of Mchess and Mchess Pro were like that. I remember
because the idea that a $150 program could go down the drain due to a
demagnetization issue had me quite nervous, and I tried to make a back-up to
protect against that. No luck though. Fortunately, nothing happened to the
diskette either.
Albert
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