[game_preservation] Online DRM

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

I think language like that was pretty common pre-1990 or so. I remember  
hearing the "one backup copy" line pretty frequently, back in the day.

I've just noticed your email address is UT Austin, which makes me think --  
should we try to arrange a SIG get together at SAA? Anyone else going?  
Time is tight for me, but I could probably swing lunch one day.

Cheers,
Rach

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:01:57 -0400, Vowell, Zach  
<zvowell at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


> This doesn't have much to do with DRM mechanisms, but it's an  

> interesting little footnote to EA's history of copy protection....maybe  

> call it the pre-web attitude to copying.  It's a snippet from the  

> Command Summary document found in "Robot Rascals" (published by EA in  

> 1987):

>

> "For your convenience, "Robot Rascals" is not copy protected so that you  

> can easily make one backup copy for your own use, or install the program  

> on your own RAM or hard disk.  Please show us that copy protection is  

> unnecessary -- do not give copies of this product away.  Thank you."   

> [emphasis in the original doc]

>

> Very polite :)

>

>

> Zach