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Spend years of your own labor, at odd hours of the day and night as well 
as intermingled among such things as family and work at a real job, 10s 
of thousands of your own buckaroos to develop and then market a product 
only to have some yahoo steal it from you ... or steal your design.

Get back to us about how your attitude concerning this matter is then, 
will you?

And as far as that goes, I suspect Graham has had some of his personal 
work product hijacked ... as have many of the rest of us.  So yes, most 
of us will get pithy about such matters.



brewski922 wrote:
> Graham thanks for the insult about my brain not being in gear. Is that the respect you give to all the people whose opinion you don't agree with, insult them. Grow up; quit calling people names and insulting them. And I do stand by what I said, "I don't trust them", companies that don't trust me. 
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> I can just see it, I buy software like that to use at work. A year from now my harddrive goes south. Trying to put the software from a copy protected CD and the CD is bad. After some quick calls, may be some credit card charges, it is set up and I download the CD over the internet. Mean while my boss would say, "what was you thinking, didn't you have your brain in gear before you bought that?"
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> About the "copy protected", most software is copyright protected, so are most books, music recordings, that does nothing to stop you from making a copy, I just makes it illegal. Copy protected is when they do something to the CD that will make it difficult for the legal owners from making a backup copy of it, which copyright laws permit you to make a backup copy of. No matte how much copy protection is placed on a CD the true crooks CAN make illegal copies. Look at what is being done in China. About 20 years ago a friend of mine was over there and had a CD with all kinds of copyrighted software, from Lotus, Borland, Microsoft, Word Perfect, all on one CD. Do ya smell a rat here? It was the latest stuff too. He laughed and said he would have loved to have all that software. First, knowing him, he wouldn't do it but he also said can you imagine trying to explain to customs that it was OK.
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> I don't like copy protected software.
> It only punishes the legal owners,
> Mike Bronosky
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