Re: Mad about copy protection.....

[viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)]

In <C2CCwt.Avs@umassd.edu> cadams@cis.umassd.edu (Christopher J. Adams) writes:

>Well the other day I purchased a product from an apple dealer...
>It was copy protected by the key disk method....
>I was using the disk for a few days...when it suddenly died..
>the program would not find the key so it wont let me run it.

>Well I called the company and they said that the program was 
>discontinued and they cannot help me.  I asked them if they 
>had any copies, "I am entitled to one according to their 
>written agreement..." they basicly said they destroyed ALL
>copies and code....YEAH RIGHT!.  Well as it stands now..I am
>out of a program and no support...

	Screw 'em.  Keep your original disk and manuals, and
find either a cracked version or copy it from somebody else.
You still have only an archival copy, but about the time a
company refuses to support a product they've violated their
part of the license agreement and, quite frankly, deserve it.

	What gets me is that, thirty years from now, I'm going
to recieve a call from some customer of mine asking for support
on code I wrote last year.  Guess what?  They'll get it or
they can get a copy from somebody else with my blessing.

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