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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Bloodstar <george.w...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> And serial key is not copy protection by your theory? Shrapnel Games and 
> Matrix Games have copy protection like this, you can find pirated games but 
> later on you cannot patch it(pirated serials get's on the black list). They 
> don't get cracked as interest luckily for wargames in pirates and crackers 
> is minimal.
> So it's misleading that G. Civ 2 had no copy protection at all. no cd key 
> etc... Well, you can correct me if I am wrong.

It doesn't require you to have the CD in the drive while you play, it 
doesn't contain special software or other tricks to make the disc 
unreadable by your CD burner/program.  I'd say it doesn't have copy 
protection.

It DOES have a liscense/activation scheme, but even then you only need to 
enter the key if you want to patch the game.

This is incomparison to my friend's daughter's copy of Dogz, which won't 
even run on her laptop because it's a CD-RW drive and the "copy 
protection" is afraid that if you put the disc into something that can 
burn CDs, you might try to copy the game.  As a result, my friend no 
longer buys her daughter PC games.  Instead, the daughter picks out used 
PS2 games.

> BTW, it's not crippling DRM that drives sales down because if game is good 
> gamers will buy it regardless of copy protection (except maybe Starforce if 
> they really hate it lol).

I won't.  I won't buy any game with Starforce on it.  I may miss out on 
some  great games, but so be it.  

> But boycotting games because of copy protection is even worse and that will 
> just kill PC games if it is done on a large scale.

There are plenty of other PC games that don't use copy protection, DRM, or 
will trash my hardware simply because I want to play it.  I'm voting with 
my feet.

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