In article >,
says...
> They spent a ton of money to pay protection developers only to have it cracked within weeks. In the end, the honest consumer gets charged more for this protection to be added and is the one who gets it up the ass. The hackers and pirates end up laughing while the average Joe ends up not being able to even make a backup copy. Now isn't the joke on us, the legitimate consumer.
>

So what should the developers do? Just forget copy protection and say
"OK crackers, you've won. We aren't going to copy protect our software
because it's not worth the hassle."

In the early 90s I used a Commodore Amiga. I was FAR superior to
anything in the PC world at the time, and the PC didn't catch up until
the late 90s. The Amiga should be a force in the market today but it's
not. Why? Two reasons: 1. the idiots who ran Commodore; 2. software
piracy. Most Amiga games were'nt copy protected and piracy was rampant
in the Amiga community.

Of course this isn't going to happen to the PC but you get my point.
Piracy is a real threat and must be addressed by software developers
somehow. Do you really think they like having to spend their development
time writing copy protection into their software?

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