Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

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

In article <39EBBC10.A5C5C0DD@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
}Paul Grammens wrote:
}
}> But back to the effect of copy protection:  I have boxes of software that I
}> got with my Apple II's, and much of it can't be run from my expensive hard
}> disks because it's copy protected.  I've mentioned Print Shop before, that
}> one drives me nuts. You can load it onto the hard disk, but you have to
}> insert the copy protected floppy in order to run it!
}> That's not a problem on the PC version.
}> The message: if you want to run your software from a hard disk, get a PC or
}> Mac. And that's exactly what people did.
}
}Interesting point. Why did the same company sell the same program on three
}platforms, PC, Mac, IIGS, but only on the IIGS did they use such odious copy
}protection? The only answer to that question that makes any sense, of course, is
}that piracy was a much more serious threat on the II than on the other two
}platforms.

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....

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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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