Re: Hail the crackers! They have preserved our past forever.

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Zorin the Lynx" <yakko@zorin.org> wrote in message
news:cej10b$5su$1@ottoman.cs.fiu.edu...
>
> As I was looking recently through archives of disk images of Apple II
> software, particularly formerly copy-protected games, I just realized
> what a great service the crackers of old did for the Apple II community
> in the long run.
>
> If not for being cracked, most of these games could not have made it
> into disk images for permanent preservation. They would be lost to
> eternity as the original disks wore out, never to be played again.
>
> Sure, the crackers may have cost the publishers a few sales back when
> the games were selling... but would we be able to download and play
> these games today if not for their work?
>
> Hail the crackers. They have preserved a generation of games for all
> eternity.
>
> -Z

Of course, isn't defeating copy-protection schemes completely legal nowadays
on "obsolete platforms", according to the DMCA?

-Greg