Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 16:51:29 12/03/04
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On December 03, 2004 at 18:21:14, Albert Silver wrote: >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. While I totally agree with you that users like you and I will be the ones inconvienced, I am totally for the authors protecting their work. Before all it was just a simple cd check and it was done. This was done by the interface itself and nothing more (excluding Shredder). > >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. Convekta does in fact use a great cd checking scheme. > >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 No the best anti-piracy protection is what took place with Chess Tiger 2004. I can _guarantee_ that you will not find that program in the "scene" as they call it. One of the groups that I belong to has made sure of that. Unfortunately there are others that got by us... Peter
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