spencer@eris.UUCP (01/29/87)
In article <401@vaxine.UUCP> nw@vaxine.UUCP (Neil Webber) writes: >In article <398@vaxine.UUCP>, nw@vaxine.UUCP (that's me) flames >mildly about Soundscape Pro MIDI Studio (PMS) being copy protected. >To which, Jeffrey Clesius has replied: >> >> Do people have a choice? Maybe. Look at DPaint. Are there enough of us to >> pressure Mimetics? I doubt it. >> > >I say we certainly do have a choice. My Lattice C compiler costs about >the same as Mimetic's Pro MIDI Studio, is much more attractive to software >pirates (much larger audience), and is not copy protected. Why? Because >no one would buy a C compiler which is copy protected. Could you imagine >having to insert a "key disk" every time you wanted to compile something? >(or, worse yet, having to type in some particular word from the manual?) > >When it comes to copy protection, we have a choice: just say NO. > >Neil Webber Automatix Inc (or current resident) Billerica MA > {decvax,allegra}!encore!vaxine!nw Maybe, but I am sometimes amazed at what gets protected. Have you seen Marauder II. I do not pirate software, nor do I buy software, I just spend my time giving thanks to all the PD writers out there. (Maybe it takes someone like me to want to be the users group's Librarian) So I am waiting frantically for Marauder II to come out. I can finally make lots and lots of copies of Fish disks just by using my many external drives. Finally it arrives at a friends. We played with it one night, and the next day we went to our users group and used it. That copy protection is a pain in the ass! (oops, can I say that?) Here is a product that makes more pirating possible and I can't use it unless I bring my _only_ copy of the non-xerox blue totally useless manual with me to lose at the meeting so that I can't use it later. Well, I went back to copperstate QuickCopy (the PD one). It is fast and copies without breaking copy protection (which I don't care about anyway) and doesn't have the audasity to ask for a password first after requiring me to reboot my machine to run that program only, and taking over my drives so I can't see the title of the disk I want to copy on a drive not involved in the copy process. My Marauder II arrived in the next couple of days and I haven't yet opened it. Piracy protection is just toooo much of a hassle. Even the game my company publishes annoyes me with that protection. But I never understood buying games any way. Here's to the days when the software industry makes so much money that they can charge me $12.00 for a product that is not copy protected. Too bad all this garbage is now sinking over to the Audio industry, love those copy protected Digital Audio Tapes (DATs). Ugh, grumble, smurff...... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 C#(415)283-5469 I N F I N I T Y spencer%eris@berkeley.edu Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . spencer@USCVAXQ.bitnet But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . ....ucbvax!eris!spencer Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. s o f t w a r e -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-