Author: Albert Silver
Date: 15:21:14 12/03/04
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On December 03, 2004 at 14:11:25, Peter Skinner wrote:
>On December 03, 2004 at 12:06:31, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>my English Online-translate text:
>>
>>Starting from that, one can do 10,12,2004 junior 9 and Deep junior 9 with
>>ChessBase, and/or chess often commodity offerers get. Again is that junior 9,
>>according to an indication under condition for system with chess Niggemann
>>(Schachversand.de), junior 9 30 days CD-check required! That gave it my
>>knowledge with ChessBase to products last with Fritz 5.32. Further can I find
>>neither with ChessBase, nor with chess Niggemann whether there is an entrance to
>>Schach.de (Playchess.com)? These data are without guarantee.
>>
>>Who would like to have more information, inform with its distributing house or
>>at the company ChessBase.
>>
>>My German "Original-Text" read here:
>>
>>http://www.f27.parsimony.net/forum67838/messages/89.htm
>>
>>Eduard
>
>While I think that cd-checks are pretty futile for trying to prevent piracy, I
>can see where they are needed. Even for those that purchase the program legally
>a 30 day check is nothing to whine about.
>
>Even with the current anti-piracy schemes offered by Chessbase (Having to enter
>the cd on the first run), they are no where near what they need to be.
>
>The only program to date with an excellent cd-checking system is Shredder. I
>will not go into detail on what is consists of, but it is one of the better
>ones.
>
>Being part of many anti-piracy agencies for both software and music, and an
>advocate for better anti-piracy methods and penalties it is nice to see some
>authors taking steps to protect their work.
>
>Peter
Mmmm, not sure that I agree. I agree that better anti-piracy measures are
needed, but I think that particular one is sub-optimal to say the least. For one
thing, Chessbase has promoted a uniform GUI for multiple engine use, which means
that users who buy more than one engine, such as myself, will have to get ready
for the probable eventuality of having to refuel the GUI many more times than
once a month once this CD-check is used for other engines. If I buy 4 engines,
then I can expect to refuel 4 times a month. The users who will be the least
inconvenienced are those who buy the least.
Convekta has a pretty decent anti-piracy CD protection making it fairly
difficult to copy the CD. When I worked for the company, I also sold a number of
the programs, in particular the instruction programs, yet even today I have
barely seen any piracy of their CDs.
The best copy protection I've seen would have to be for the professional
backgammon program, Snowie 4. It is a *very* expensive program ($380) and used
by almost every pro there is, so you can imagine that the demand for piracy
would be huge. But as far as I know, the piracy must be at a strict minimum,
since I've only heard of a handful of failed attempts. I'm a legal owner of it,
and can only say that there are 2 codes, plus a 3rd that is created especially
for the copy, and it must be activated via the internet or stop working within
21 days. It may sound very similar to many such protection schemes, but as I
said, I've been to quite a number of tourney halls and have yet to see even one
pirated copy.
Albert
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