| From: | Matthew Garrett |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 14:06:05 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:24:44PM +0100, Simon Preston wrote:
> Anyway, how about some digital encoding on each disk? Something that makes
> it difficult (probably not impossible) to copy. When someone tries to copy
> it instead of a data file they just get a load of audio noise or fuzz.
Copy protection is evil. If it's on a CD that's supposed to be read on a
computer, there's no way you can stop that data being read. It'll be
harder, but moderately technical people will manage it and cracked
versions will be spread. What you /will/ do is prevent people with certain
types of CD drive from being able to use your product, certain computers
not wanting to have anything to do with it and so on in much the same way
that floppy-based copy protection did. It's really, really not worth it -
you'll prevent the naive user from making a copy for his neighbour, but
you won't do anything to stop the people producing thousands of illegal
copies.
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