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Re: About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com)
Fri Dec 22 17:31:49 2000
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In-reply-to: Peter Wayner <pcw2@flyzone.com> 's message of
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:19:46 -0500
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From: Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:38:42 -0800
I agree. I lived through the "physical" floppy disk copy-protection wars of
the early 80's (wherein such copy-protection technologies fell out of popular
usage) and am extremely skeptical about whether the market will accept this
stuff for all the reasons you cite.
JeffH
