RE: Copy-Protection and Other FS Programs
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:22:05 -0500 (CDT)
I won't lie to you guys. Before I bought JAWS, I was offered a "free copy"
on a few fronts, each of which I, with difficulty, turned down. I was
proud when I was able to purchase JAWS out of my own pockets. My copy of
Window-Eyes was given to me, but by GW Micro.
Bruce
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, J Dumes wrote:
> you could be right, and I don't want to incriminate myself... but in
> reality, how many of us are running programs "borrowed" from somebody else.
> hmm, pay 600 dollars or install it for free? What would the majority of
> people you know do?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of AB7HW Dick Lee Chrisman
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:30 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Copy-Protection and Other FS Programs
>
>
> This is sort of like the FBI and their Chicken Little "The Sky is Falling"
> routines.
> Very few Software Companies have any form of Copyright protection, it
> generally cost them more money to implemtnt and monitor, than they might
> lose in Copyright infringements!
> Many of the different News Agencies say that most of any Copyright
> infringement is done out side the USA.
> There is of course no information or facts about how much copying of
> programs go on and no statistics to base this argument on, so all of this is
> just Conjecture with no facts!
> Dick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frankie V." <FrankMVentura@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:05 PM
> Subject: RE: Copy-Protection and Other FS Programs
>
>
>> I always wondered that myself. Is there actually a blind underground
>> network out there somewhere that is selling pirated copies of screen
>> readers in back alleys? I wonder what the cost of developing and
>> maintaining the ILM is versus the potential loss of revenue due to piracy
>> when you factor in all the costs of tech support for people having problems
>> with the new copy protection scheme.
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> .From: "Bruce Toews"<water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
>> .Sent: 4/14/05 9:34:29 PM
>> .To: "jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> .Subject: Copy-Protection and Other FS Programs
>> .
>> .Is FS as stingy in terms of copy-protection with Magic and Open Book?
>> .
>> .FS says they copy-protect because of money being lost. Why does
>> .Window-Eyes, at least in North America, not have that problem? this last
>> .question is rhetorical.
>> .
>> .Bruce
>> .
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