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Subject: Re: Accidentally Formated HD, HIARCS6 will not work!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 16:05:52 11/29/98

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On November 29, 1998 at 08:31:08, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>I do not like and will not buy a program that has stupid copy protection, best
>way to protect a game is to make the disk hard to copy, and when you run the
>program you have to place either the disk or better still a cd-rom in the drive
>to run the program.
>
>That should be all the copy protection you need.
>Not to have to put the disk in to uninstall a program so you can use it another
>time.

This isn't copy protection, this is a joke.  It has been easy to duplicate a
CD-ROM for a few years, but today more than ever the hardware to do so is
readily available.  Software developers use CD-ROM as a distribution mechanism
for convenience, not for good copy protection!

The fellow with the difficulty is in touch with the author of Hiarcs here, so I
am sure everything will work out fine.  Receiving a high level of support from a
manufacturer and/or vendor is IMHO more important than the particular
copy-protection scheme the software is issued with.

Dave Gomboc



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