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Article #159Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: gme... GM Enierga
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 07:48
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 07:48
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t...@falun.cs.ualberta.ca (Ignatius Tam) writes: >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$100... I don't understand this thing actually. Firstly, it is not easy to pirate a CD-ROM... if it needs to access the CD-ROM while you are playing the game and have it installed on your HD (I think you may all understand what I mean). The other thing is the prices of software on CD-ROM. Since it is not easy (almost impossible?) to pirate CD-ROM games, companies would not lose out sales from pirated games, hence why do they STILL use that old excuse? I just don't get it. - Falcon
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!nordwest.germany.eu.net!pophh!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au!gmeni1 From: gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: 18 Nov 1994 07:48:03 GMT Organization: Monash University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ahm7j$aal@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> 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$4e5@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> <39jom9$llh@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au X-NNTP-Posting-User: gmeni1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit