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R. Belmont
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Re: "Oh noes"
03/29/17 04:52 PM


> It is too bad with companies/developers creating a protection method 20 to 30 years
> ago for a product at the time and that protection is so bullet-proof that it
> eventually sabotages things in case the company wanted to market a re-release of the
> software program.

The major thrust of 4AM's work is that copy protection actually did work, as long as your title wasn't something the crackers of the time considered to be 31337. A lot of educational software that wasn't Oregon Trail didn't get cracked until now, for instance.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* "Oh noes" gregf 03/25/17 11:15 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" Haze  03/25/17 11:48 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" smf  03/29/17 05:21 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" gregf  03/26/17 05:24 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" R. Belmont  03/29/17 04:52 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" gregf  05/15/17 10:05 PM
. * Re: "Oh noes" Haze  05/15/17 11:58 PM

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