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Article #158Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: t... Ignatius Tam
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 23:26
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 23:26
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lew...@cs.ualberta.ca (Michael Lewchuk) writes: >PAAR...@WHEEL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (P Armstrong) writes: >>Exactly!! I, as an individual who actually PAYS for software instead of >>just pirating it, had been hoping that through CDs there would be less >>copying going on and (hopefully) the software companies would be willing >>to charge lower prices. Whether or not this will happen I don't know... >Well, since floppies are also a major distribution medium, pirates will just >pirate floppy games if they can't pirate CDs. just a side note: did you hear there ARE pirated CDs? no kidding, goto HK and buy 3 games for HK$100... don't flame me, tell those antipirate agents and see what they can do... sorry HK people out there, but i'm very disgusted at what you guys do... -iGnatius -- Marto Piggus(tm)!! Your dreaming pig-meat is here! Contact your local dealer e-mail: t...@cs.ualberta.ca ^..^ ___^ My home page: phone: (403) 433 3187 | <||> | } http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~tam/ -----------------------------\_____/ --------------------------------------- -- Marto Piggus(tm)!! Your dreaming pig-meat is here! Contact your local dealer e-mail: t...@cs.ualberta.ca ^..^ ___^ My home page: phone: (403) 433 3187 | <||> | } http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~tam/ -----------------------------\_____/ ---------------------------------------
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!falun.cs.ualberta.ca!tam From: t...@falun.cs.ualberta.ca (Ignatius Tam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: 6 Nov 1994 23:26:01 GMT Organization: Computing Science, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 31 Message-ID: <39jom9$llh@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <1994Oct24.013219.10665@pimacc.pima.edu> <Cy6wCC.A22@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.A32.3.90.941025111646.71808B-100000@isisb.oit.unc.edu> <38jokd$fss@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <38pc87$m4a@hermes.oc.com> <PAARMSTR.63.001352F4@WHEEL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca> <39j4el$4e5@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: falun.cs.ualberta.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit