| From: | Oliver McDonald oliver@*********.com |
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| Subject: | skillsoft chips |
| Date: | Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:15:56 -0800 (PST) |
>Now I'm still one of those folks that don't have a CD ROM burner so I'm not
>real up on the whole thing yet but there used to be a degradation in quality
>when you made a copy of something. Nothing too noticeable on the first copy
>but if you took that copy and copied it and so on things'll start looking
>pretty nasty. If that's still the case lets go back to the level 7 Russian
>language sim that you want to share with the rest of the group. Say 5
>copies of that level 7 sim...would the level go down? Or would you have
>like a lisp or something?
With CD-ROMs and other digital media, there is no degradation in quality with copying.
This is one of the reasons the RIAA is so concerned. Per SR cannon, pre-encoded
chips can not be copied, this is probably thanks to some internal copy protection
system. What you can do, though, is if you write a utility or MPCP (as per VR2 rules)
you can make copies of that because you have the source. It is very handy to have
deckers cooperate in this way.
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