Author: Paul
Date: 07:08:00 09/22/02
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On September 22, 2002 at 09:35:30, Albert Silver wrote: >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 This makes me remember one of my floppy incidents. Genius (don't remember which version) had a protection scheme where you could only install it 3 times; you moved a copy from the floppy to the HD as it were, and you could also move it back to floppy by de-installing, but if something happened to the copy on HD, you simply lost a copy. That happened to me twice, so one day I only had one copy left. At that time I was writing a backup utility to copy HD partitions sector by sector, and that utility came in quite handy here! I just installed the last copy of Genius on a small partition, made a backup of the partition using my utility, de-installed the Genius copy, restored the backup of the partition, de-installed Genius again, etc ... so after this I was back up to my original 3 copies ... never tried to create more than 3 copies on the floppy though :) groetjes, Paul
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