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Old 22nd December 2008, 07:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Sadly, it seems as if the industry is getting extremely paranoid about this kind of thing, and possibly rightfully so.
They can fear all they want, but they need to create a copy protection that actually works with their customers. Otherwise they have just spend money on developing a software, spend money on buying a copy protection software, and made no money on customers because no one can actually use it.

If they wanted to make no money, they could as well just have not spend money on copy protection. (or developing the product in the first place)

What is worse, they are giving people even a "legitimately feeling" reason to search for methods to break their protection. Every cracker has now a perfectly good excuse: "No, I didn't intend my crack to be used by anyone not owning the software! I jut did it to help those poor honest customers with issues with the copy protection!"
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