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From: mperdue@l4software.com (Mario Perdue)
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Subject: Re: anti-mod chip / pirating / backups / etc.
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:47:43 GMT
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:56:27 +0000, James Duffield
<J.Duffield@btinternet.com> wrote:

>[snip]
>The rather long-winded point i'am trying to make here is that
>piracy, in some form will always be with us, so any attempt
>to stop piracy, is, ultimatley a waste of resourses. Unless
>someone can come with a way to take software protection in
>a completly new direction, there will always be copies readily
>available.

The ultimate form of anti-piracy protection was applied to both the
Amiga and Atari ST communities when both companies discontinued the
products and went out of business. A major cause of the demise of both
was rampant disregard of software copyrights.

Mario