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

Author: Roman Hartmann

Date: 08:05:46 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 10:55:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.

Yes, there is no doubt about that. Still SMK is selling Shredder online as well
without a heavy copy protection. After all, a lot of people who are using stolen
software never even considered to buy it, so I don't know how much it hurts the
sales really.

Roman


>--
>GCP



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