From wwwwolf@iki.fi Fri Aug 27 14:27:25 1999 Path: news.eunet.fi!wwwwolf Message-Id: From: wwwwolf@iki.fi (Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen)) Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack Subject: [RGRNCA] Re: copyright protection scheme on games Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:28:10 GMT References: <37C4FA54.D1B4D29F@sfu.ca> Lines: 38 Organization: Eccentric Pride - They call you crazy. SO WHAT? X-FurryCode: FCWm3adm A+C-DH+M+PR+T++W-ZSm RLU a20cl+++$d-ef++h*i++p-sm X-YiffCode: Yiff1.0M2 P? Z-- T! S+ V(wolf/fox,*)+ H(wolf,*)+ I&Or X-FurryPeace: http://www.fur.com/peace/ - flamage bad. peace good. User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.6 (UNIX) NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.66.67.128 X-Complaints-To: helpdesk@eunet.fi X-Trace: news.eunet.fi 935670490 193.66.67.128 (Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:28:10 EET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:28:10 EET DST Xref: wwwwolf.pp.fi rec.games.roguelike.nethack:1518 On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:27:00 -0700, trevor wrote: > Hi I am having trouble burning newer games. After burning they intsall > fine and everything looks fine, but a message comes up saying install > proper CD. Aaaaah. Copy protection. The way to prevent incompetent d00dz from copying and legitimate customers from using the program - well, these days the CD-ROMs don't often need to be backed up, but ah, as demonstrated yesterday, broken drives can be pain in the neck and threat to your CDs. > How do I get around this copyright scheme. Copyright scheme? Tough luck, pal, the work is copyrighted the moment it was created... and most people think this copyright thing is not a scheme at all, it's a law and a very honorable one at that! ::grabs the d00d from the throat and peers deep into the eyes:: That was a 0-point scheme (and a very dishonorable one at that), so I'll just say that you Don't Have A Clue At All, Lad. ::grins, then sighs:: That means, I won't even waste my time to give you a proper LARTing. You will be dragged behind the sauna and shot like two people in a book, but for a lot better reason. Oh wait, I haven't built a sauna to this area yet. Well, backyard will be just as good. ::WWWWolf drags the d00d out of the building. We hear a few assault rifle shots from backyard. A few moments after that, WWWWolf walks back in and sighs deeply.:: It's been a *quiet* month... but it's a good thing that d00d a day keeps the (L33t) d0K+0r D3+H away, fewer and fewer d00dz dare to wander in... -- Weyfour WWWWolf (a.k.a. Urpo Lankinen), just another lupine technomancer ICQ:4291042 -==(RGRNCA)==-