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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: gme... GM Enierga
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 05:14
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afa...@umich.edu (Adam Farkas) writes:
>Of course, the cynical way to view this one is that Origin wants to reduce 
>piracy to zero -- 
>Even if they were to bring back a classic like autoduel, they'd probably 
>stuff 200 megs of useless multimedia clips on it, just so people couldn't 
>pirate it.
>-- a paranoid Adam

	What's the point of even TRYING to pirate games, especially like
Origin's?  You can't play them without the manuals, since the manuals pack so much useful info.
	Just my opinion.
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Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
Date: 26 Oct 1994 05:14:08 GMT
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