31 Mar
2010
31 Mar
'10
12:56 p.m.
On 31 Mar 2010 at 11:41, Fred Cisin wrote:
As far as I know, they never sold a single copy of
"Pro-Lock 2", and
EVERY customer of "Pro-Lock 1" discontinued immmediately; many with
public announcements. For years, the least informed Q&A people in
magazines would blame problems that they didn't understand on "maybe a
virus, or maybe a copy-protection program that went bad".
I remember when IBM demoed their initial PS/2 models that they used a
copy-protection-hacked version of Lotus 1-2-3, as no legitimate
copies existed in 3.5" format then. It was a little embarrassing. I
think they used CopyWrite, but I'm not certain.
The SPA ran their "Don't Copy That Floppy" campaign well into the mid-
to-late 90s. Did anyone ever *really* pay $100K for owning a single
illegal copy of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" as their ads
claimed?
--Chuck