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Subject: Re: To Anthony Cozzie and Vincent Diepeveen regarding Zappa/Diep UCI

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:55:58 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 10:46:11, Roman Hartmann wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 10:16:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2005 at 08:43:09, Roman Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>>On September 06, 2005 at 08:35:08, Rafael Vasquez wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 06, 2005 at 04:09:23, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Ed,
>>>>>
>>>>>>What about pirating?
>>>>>
>>>>>Note that the UCI protocol does allow the author to invoke copy protection.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>Steve
>>>>This is not True
>>>>
>>>>Shredder9 UCI DOES invoke copy protection.
>>>
>>>That's what Steve already stated. I remember there was some kind of
>>>copyprotection coming along with Ruffian 2.X as well. So copyprotection isn't an
>>>issue to leave UCI out obviously.
>>
>>Yeah, this kind of copyprotection works "really well"...
>>
>>Chess - Deep Sjeng 1.6 (UCI-WB) Cracked.rar
>>Chess - Ruffian 2.0.2 (UCI-WB) Cracked.rar
>>Chess - Ruffian 2.1.0 (UCI-WB) Cracked.rar
>>Shredder 8 UCI_works in CB GUI.zip
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>But that's not the fault of UCI. That only means that the copyprotection is too
>easy to crack.

There exist no such thing as a non-crackable copyprotection, and the people who
do these things probably consider it a challenge, so trying to make it better is
just a completly lost cause and waste of time.

A cracked 700M CD is still harder to transfer than a cracked 1M engine.

--
GCP



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