Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol

[Landon Dyer]

> 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