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Copy protection?

    22-May-94 20:33:52
Sb: #82607-Copy protection?
Fm: jeff Holinski 71172,1417
To: Alex Baker 75606,563
>>Now, to insert a disk form home, is a termination offense. << Gee, seems a little extreme. Couldn't you just fire the guy? ;^) Seriously most companies don't have anywhere near enough security to pervent stuff from EVER getting into or out of their machines. (Short of removing the floppy drive.) As an interesting side note, I was once in the service center of one of the local computer stores. While I was waiting to talk to one of the technitions I had a look at one of the machines that was running on the test bench. They were doing a backup of a program that had just been released and was still pretty hard to find. About a week later I overheard one of the service people telling a customer that he'd had the program for a few days and that it was pretty cool. It would be hard to prove that he got his copy of the program off of one of the machines in for servicing, but it sure makes you think. By the way, the store's out of business so maybe there really is something to this "bad karma" theory. ;^) Jeff H…