Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <39EBD279.E7A84511@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
}"Matthew T. Russotto" wrote:
}
}> Nonsense.  Piracy was certainly as much of a threat on the PC, and
}> probably the Mac as well.  Many early Mac programs -- before hard
}> disks became popular -- were copy protected.  And there's your REAL answer,
}> basically.  They would have liked to copy protect the program on all
}> systems, but hard disk users wouldn't stand for it.  Far fewer hard
}> disk users on the IIGS, so....
}
}That doesn't hold up. Lotus 1-2-3 had exactly the same kind of copy protection that
}Paul was complaining about. But, the corporations that were the major customers of
}Lotus, were not hot beds of piracy, and so the copy protection was eventually
}removed.

As you say, the copy protection was removed.  If you don't think
corporations were hotbeds of piracy, you're living in a dream world.
Less so today, because of a combination of factors like SPA fascist
tactics and their "Bubba' whispering campaign, more reasonable
multiple-copy licensing, and network licenses.

}Besides, my copy of Mac Print Shop isn't copy protected, it is dated 1986,
}and is for a Mac with 512K, listing Mac, Mac XL, and Mac Plus as the models on the
}front. Hard disk weren't THAT common for those machines at that time. And my copy of
}PrintShopGS is dated 1987....

I dunno, I had a hard disk on my Mac XL in 1985.  I remember the Mac
magazines being filled with articles and reviews about hard disks that
could be attached to the pre-SCSI Macs -- before the Plus came out.
Hard disks were popular as soon as they became available, and shortly
after that copy protection of Mac programs steeply declined.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."