Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol

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