| From: | Bart King |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 10:36:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
At 16-Aug-00 11:34:54, Alan Buxey <alanb@ftfir.mols.sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
> snakeoil again. it wouldnt work. there are many programs out there that will
> just read raw-CD data from the drive...and spit out an ISO at the other end.
Heh, oh well. At least they had the guts to set up a stand at ECTS -
wonder if they'll be there this year...
> preventing the 'casual copier' is a big step to overcoming large volumes of
> piracy. in 'A500 times' a game that couldnt be XCopied would have larger sales
That was fine for then, but times have changed. It's simple to add
floppy disk protection, but not simple when your software is on CD.
Sure, there are serial numbers and on-disc protection, but the pitfalls
for these tried and tested methods have already been highlighted.
As a software developer, there was a small sense of relief that it was
going on CD a few years ago because no-one could be bothered to copy
the contents from the disc (400 MB of data spread across 200+
multi-spanned ZIP archives? :). But, with a 1:4 CD-R ratio today, you
know it'll be copied regardless.
Is there a solution? I'd like to hear it.
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