[futurebasic] Re: Copy protection...

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From: Paul Bruneau <paul_bruneau@...>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:56:19 -0500

Terence Jordan wrote:

> (snip)
> >
> >Another weakness is that really determined users could reformat their hard
> >drives if they knew that you went easy on newly formatted drives.  They
> >would have to be pretty cheap or determined to format their drive to make
> >your program work, however, unless your program had a cadillac price tag,
> >or they were bundling your program with grey-market systems that were newly
> >set up.
>
> Well forget the check on the hard drive format date within 60 days. I say
> no leaniance.

There's nothing more annoying to me as a user than to pay for a program, then to
have to hunt up a bunch of numbers everytime I do some hard drive maintanence.
This attitude only hurts the paying customers, and makes the pirates chuckle.

PB