From: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com (Ross Erickson)
Subject: Re: Key-disk... It's back again!!
Reply-To: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:12:38 GMT

>> Yes. Stop piracy.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^

>It is quite obvious that you are not a serious gamer, one that buy many

This is both insulting and condescending.  You have no idea or way of
knowing what another person's gaming habits are.  

>games each month.  I have bought close to a hundred PC games so far, do 

Let's see.  100 games x $30-40 dollars a pop would be $3,000 to $4,000
total.  Hmmmmmm

>you know how messy my table is with so many manuals and key-disks?  Some
>games even demand both key disk AND manual protection! 

"You pays yer money....You take yer chances..."
>
>If you have a game that use up up all 640meg, or even 1/2, or 1/10th of
>the CD, fine, I have to insert the CD each time.  But a 3.5meg game and you
>expect me to trouble with the CD each time?

Take it back to the store and with a receipt they will give you your
money back.
>
>Do you own a CD-ROM drive?  Do you know what is a caddy?  
>1) I have to take out the caddy from the drive, 
>2) take the current CD out and 
>3) put it back into its case, 
>4) take the game CD out of its case,
>5) put it into the caddy,
>6) and insert the caddy back into the CD-ROM drive.

Forgive me, but what's your point??  I don't think you can get CTS
from doing this.  I've had a CD-ROM drive for a long time now (around
20-30 CDs or so) and this is not a problem.  It takes maybe 10
seconds.  Don't you plan to play for longer than 10 minutes?
>
>Perhaps they should have a police officer check your driver's license
>each time before you are allowed to drive, heh? 

Hardly a fair analogy.  Keys are a better analogy.  Doesn't it really
p*ss you off that you have to put some keys in your car to start it?
Why not get in and go??

>I apologise if I seem rude, it was not meant for you.  But I am often
>get insulted by paying good money for bad games, and to top things off,

RETURN THEM!!!

>they expect me to open the box and take out the manual or key disk 
>each time!  I would have play the more mediocre once more often if I 
>don't have to bother with protection.  After an 11-hour work day, one
>can't really bother manual and key disk if the game is not of CIV-standard.

{biting tongue...}
>
>Look at it this way -- if one can afford the game in this country, one would
>have paid for it.  Those who sneak around with pirate copies most likely
>cannot afford it in the first place, so why bother.  $20 or $40 is not worth

This is totally disagree with.  People who regularly pirate games
and have access to channels where it's available simply don't have the
self-control to resist.  Then they rationalize it by saying, "I don't
have the money, or I don't want to be stuck with a bad game..."
Bulls**t!!  It's got nothing to do with your economic level.  It has
everything to do with your ability to choose right instead of wrong.


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