ech@spuxll.UUCP (05/04/84)
For an interesting viewpoint on this issue from somebody who gets hit in
the pocketbook, see the Editorial page of the 6/84 COMPUTE! Gazette.
To summarize, this dealer sees copy protection as a gross inconvenience
to his customers, a waste of time for the most part, and something that
drives up the cost of the protected software (to everyone's detriment).
(The waste of time is the usual argument that there is NO way to stop the
determined pirate.)
In short, everything's been said here at one time or another -- but this
time it's one of the pirate's VICTIMS who is speaking out against copy
protection. He ends by applauding COMPUTE!s decision to keep the Gazette
disk unprotected ("at least for now" adds the editor...)
=Ned=