[89354] in Cypherpunks
Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Landon Dyer)
Mon Nov 3 17:20:02 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:33:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Landon Dyer <landon@best.com>
To: kelsey@plnet.net, marc@cygnus.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: Landon Dyer <landon@best.com>
> Someone recently told me that game manufacturers have stopped worrying
> about piracy. Why? Because most new games come on CD-ROM, and
> copying a CD-ROM is an expensive, time-consuming operation. Bulk
> duplication of CD's is substantially cheaper than one-off duplication,
> and since games are cheap, people will usually buy them rather than
> copy them.
you can duplicate a CD for about $2, in half an hour
i've already encountered some copy-protected software (the CD
duplicates don't work). my guess is we'll see a lot more of this
> I'm unconvinced that there really is an Internet copyright problem
check out the "warez" newsgroups...
peace,
-landon
