notes@isucs1.UUCP (02/06/86)
/***** isucs1:net.micro.apple / homxb!tlpmp / 9:10 am Jan 23, 1986 */ >We've just puchased a IIe system for our church with a 10Mb Sider >and a 512K RAMWORKS card. The software we purchsed includes >Print Shop and Dollars & $ense. My question is how do I >load these programs onto the Sider? If a regular copy >program like Copy II+ 5.(whatever) can do it, what partition >do I use for each applications program? (CPM-I don't thinkkso, ProDos-maybe, >DOS-maybe, Pascal-maybe for $s & $ense). This doesn't seem >to be an unreasonable thing to want to do, nor should it be >illegal. If it is illegal, let me know since it is for a church and >we wouldn't want to do anything against the law. I also >wonder about future protected software purchases which we haven't >identifed a need for yet. Any guidance would be >appreciated. > >Terry Penrod >AT&T Netwrok Systems This is the problem with copy protection, there is no way to load these programs on the Sider or any other hard disk drive. I know, I have a Corvus 10 meg drive, and I have many programs that had to have the copy protection removed to run under the Corvus environment (almost all won't work under it at all when they are protected, even when I try to run them from floppies because the Corvus controller I have _must_ be in slot 6 (this stinks) Things to do: Call the authors/publishers and complain until they are tired of hearing anymore, and this failing, call your local 13 year old software deprotection whiz and let him at the programs. It is a shame that publishers must take this kind of attitude with regards to copy protection, as it actually encourages the piracy it is supposed to prevent and makes life more difficult for the legit owner. Lee Heins Disclaimer: The UNIX site I'm writing this from will probably not like my opinions so they are mine alone. /* ---------- */