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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Backing up your DBPro CD

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ozak
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Posted: 23rd May 2003 22:51
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I was just wondering if it's possible to take a direct copy of your DBPro CD for backup.
Since DBPro needs the CD for verification, I would be very sad if the CD stopped working for any reason

Thanks in advance

Ozak
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Rob K
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Posted: 23rd May 2003 22:56
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It would not be *cough*CloneCD*cough* legal for me to tell you how *cough*Alcohol120%*cough* to back up your software which the *cough*BlindWrite*cough* developers put a lot of time and *cough*CDRWin*cough* effort into

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Soyuz
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Posted: 23rd May 2003 23:02
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Bad case of SARS by the sounds of things - you ought to get down the clinic.
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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 24th May 2003 01:32
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isn;t it funny all the time and money they put into copy protection and the only people it's stops from copying are the legitimat users who don't know enough to get around it. never have figure out why they do it.
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 24th May 2003 01:54
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And to be honest, you can just do a normal copy if you do something else too...

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AlecM
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blindwrite is a great program... not that im suggesting people use it.

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Guruchild
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Posted: 24th May 2003 08:33
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I'm drunk but if anything happened to my CD i'm sure you guys would hear abour it first right here heahahhaj

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ozak
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Posted: 24th May 2003 18:02
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Typical. Just because a person wants to protect his investement, you instantly connect it with software piracy

Programmers don't copy the result of other programmers hard work

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Kangaroo2
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Posted: 25th May 2003 00:27 Edited at: 25th May 2003 00:28
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I have a backup copy of DBPro, its such a important piece of software to me I can't risk loosing/scratching it. I don't personally think there's any moral issue in it, and any1 who uses an illegal copy to make a commercial game if they hadn't paid for a copy would soon get caught anyways

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adr
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Posted: 25th May 2003 19:55
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First post (hello all), but I hope it's helpful.

Under UK law you're allowed to make one copy of your software for backup purposes. However, the laws of the country you're in override the laws of the country where the software was made...

So, for example, even though MS' EULA states that you can't make a backup copy of the software, if you're in the UK you can.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I'm just doing my best to remember stuff from my computer law module at uni...

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madbilly
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Posted: 26th May 2003 01:16
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I think DB say that if your CD becomes faulty then you can send it back to them and they will replace it. Correct?
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IanM
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Posted: 26th May 2003 01:45
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IIRC, yes.
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