sjk@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/21/86)
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In-Reply-To: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu's message of 20 Feb 86 15:02:59 EST (Thu)
Subject: Electronic Arts Copy Protection
Hurray! It would be a shame to lose the "intelligent user" market by
limiting an application's functionality/generality (within itself and
the system as a whole) for reasons like copy protection, if indeed this
is the case with EA's products.
In some ways, this is potentially a subtle form of "Design by Geniuses
for Use by Idiots" (see Steven Levy's "Hackers", pg. 238) when a
company's intentions impose [artificial] limitations on {hard,soft}ware.
I'd much rather hear it had to be designed that way "because there was
no other way to do it" rather than "because we had to copy protect it"
(or whatever).
Maybe that's obvious...
scott