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by Anonymous User on Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 12:08:57 AM PDT

If a vendor's copy protection introduces bugs and incompatibilities, it's their own damn fault. It's not functionality that the users either need or desire, and if they think it will stop people torrenting the software they're dreaming. (Lower prices, OTOH, may well encourage more users to buy legit.) Same applies to any other bundled "features" that provide no added value to the end user (*cough*spyware*cough*).

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Sure...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#27)
by James Farmer on Thu Mar 23, 2006 at 04:02:19 AM PDT

Oh, of course. I was just pointing out a possible reason for there being so many copy-protection bugs - because vendors are relying on flakey, non-standard or badly-understood features in their quest to "prove" a copy is good (or drive people towards Warez, depending upon your point of view). Personally, as a software professional, I feel the complexity of the environment we have to deal with now exceeds by far what I was encountering ten or fifteen years ago. If I'd known it was going to get this bad, I never would have gotten into this profession.

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