re how to the disks copy protected in article r sbinnkap flop engr orst edu noeler xanth cs orst edu eric richard noel writes i strongly disagree i think most pirating is done by amateurs who won t copy the program if diskcopy can t do it i hate to disagree but i will note i don t pirate software nor do i trade it i simply have met and talked extensively with those who have that s it the fbi can tap someone else s phone most pirating is done by people who don t use the programs they pirate a cracked program tends to get passed on resplendant in the various graphics and animations that advertise whoever performed the modification s i admit that a large portion of the business world is involved in giving copies of programs to one s fellow workers maybe taking it home for use on one s own pc but such trading tends to be interdepartmental or at most spread throughout the business as a whole how many times have you had someone walking from business to business letting people copy disks it s mostly a matter of convenience a person sees a program they want to use and they feel justified in making a copy since someone s already paid for it etc etc a note this is starting to change a bit not much though if you re talking a max goal of pirated copies i bet that anything that will beat diskcopy and can t be easily copied from a hard drive will suffice what about commercially available copy programs copyii how about programs like teledisk that can do things diskcopy can t and before anyone disputes this because they feel that those who would copy wouldn t know about this after working with people around computers one comes to realize that the average user doesn t know much any computer enthusiast is at least x better at pre guessing commands and how to use them can you sit down and use something without reading the manual and it is these people who are doing the pirating not joe windows user who can t remember a few arguments to the dir command i hate hard copy manuals and would rather have all docs online not because i want to copy the program but because its usually faster and and convenient than sifting through an old book i can t find really i find it evens out the online stuff can be read through faster but you re stuck reading it in linear flow start to finish unless you jump ahead with a search or such a book though you can flip through faster than you can read text on a screen and they usually have a nifty index too but i partially agree i often wish i could grep something that was written down off deeper end why does everyone think they need to be able to make a backup copy almost all new software must be installed to the hard disk so you are left with the originals as your backups i think its a waste of time space and money as well as it makes it to tempting to lend out the backups what if they need to re install the idea of a backup still holds if the original disk goes bad they re out of luck for about weeks which is the usual turn around time for a company to send a new set of disks if they ll do it without a charge edward w jajko the nekomancer ejajko hertz elee calpoly edu mein fuhrer i can walk doctor strangelove
