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Re: Quit Whining About Piracy!!!

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From: a.b.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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Andrew Bassett wrote:


> just cut to the chase here. Blizzard Entertainment is a smart company.
> S..M..A..R..T! Just look at what they did with Diablo. Adding 60 megs
> or
> so worth of non-data junk to the end of the big 500 meg file, to make
> it
> uncopyable, was a stroke of genius. Sure, sure. Mabye you can get a
> program to copy it, but first of all, who would want to waste 600 megs
> of hard disk space and besides, even if they had enough space, most
> pirates would be too lazy to copy all that info. So, anyway, you can
> never eliminate piracy, but with a little smart thinking the way
> blizzard did, it can be drastically reduced. So, if you don't want
> your
> games stolen, get your act together and do something about it!


I didn't waste 600 Megs of H.D. I just used my CDR to copy it...
I just used 20 minutes of my time to copy from CD to CDR and there it
was...
Well ...I didn't do that with any other game by Blizzard 'cause I do
like the
box, books etc. I did it for first just to try it out, found the
game EXCELENT and bought the original one.

So... its better for the companies to make GREAT games in nice boxes
with good books and info 'bout the game, a poster, LOW PRICE etc. and
its O.K.
Only fools will continue copying around 'cause it's not only the CD,
it's also the other stuff that comes with it!
(I bought Mercenaries from Activision and it came in a BIG box with
a sweat shirt and a watch included...)

Paying the software is the best thing to do to see things growing
and getting better ...So if we like a game its good to give them courage
to make games better and better and better and better ............
.............and more and more and more.................
........................................
..................carrier lost

and btw ....only if you have the original game the company
will help you if you got a problem with it...
Like me. I had a problem with F22 by Novalogic,
send them email and got reply in just a few minutes
"Send it to us and we will exchange it with a new one,
including all the latest updates"
Well now after a few days I have the new one,
upgraded, updated and shiny!

And YES that's why I WILL ALWAYS BUY ORIGINAL !!!

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Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy!!!
Date: 1997/06/12
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