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On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:03:20 GMT, sp...@hal-pc.org (Spam) wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Jun 1997 19:29:45 -0600, Andrew Bassett
><dr...@mailhost.sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>I'm sick and tired of hearing the software game companies constant
>>whining about their software being stolen and distributed and all that
>>jazz. 90% of the games I see have the little colorful banner screen
>>after you quit to dos, shaming you into registering, implying that
>>everyone pirates. What kind of sales are they trying to make here??? I
>>think it is rude and pointless. For example, Wolfenstien 3D. That
>>quit-to-dos banner talking about piracy, unintelligently related to an
>>empty hard drive, can really discourage iD's customers from buying more
>>useless video games. And, ha! Look at Quake's banner! "Congratulations,
>>you are probably not a thief." Huhhh??? Now, I challenge anyone to reply
>>with a logical explination on what they are trying to say. Anyway, let's
>>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!
>
>Yes, software companies are indeed stupid.  Look at the incredibly
>stupid move ID made when they put all those other full games on the
>Quake shareware CD.  It was as if they were begging to be ripped off
>by every kid in the nation willing to go out and spend 5-10 bucks on
>that CD.  Then you take companies like Micro$oft.  They're stupid in
>they're own right simply because they charge insane prices for
>relativly simple applications and expect people not to pirate them.
>In this case I think Micro$oft got exactly what they deserved.  But
>you can spew out as meny demographics as you wish but it won't help.
>I seriously doubt the SPA's are accurate.  It's they're job to stir up
>public support against piracy so they would have every reason to
>exaggerate.  Conclusion being, don't worry about it.  Let the
>corporations continue making overpriced software, let the SPA keep
>ranting about how much it damages the economy.  It will always be a
>stalemate.
>-Spam
>
I think that  what they made with diablo is nothing as any one now can
copy the cd on a CD-R for a lower price than buying the game ,and also

will not be obliged to spent harddisk space