Re: Quit Whining About Piracy

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From: Jesse Firebaugh
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:00

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Clas...@skuz.net wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:59:50 GMT, rab...@mindspring.com (rabBit)
> wrote:
> 
> >Soon this will be impossible to do. Myself, and other programmers in
> >the industery, have devised a technique that causes the program to
> >corrupt if a writeback is performed. This does not occur when you
> >install the games, however, though should you attempt to copy directly
> >from the installed files, it will corrupt as well.
> >
> >I can't get into the specifics, but lets just say that CD to CDR
> >pirating will soon be a thing of the past, and since you will need the
> >CD in the tray to initiate the game, pirating is about to cease.
> 
Um, That could be a VERY intresting thing. One problem: What if your
code can be manipulated to make it so your HARDRIVE is WRITE PROTECTED
so you cant copy things without killing your harddrive?

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From: Jesse Firebaugh <dmdh...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
Date: 1997/07/11
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