Re: Royalties???

> This doesn't yet begin to explain why CD-ROMs, which theoretically are
> pirate-proof (at least until CD writers get cheap), are so damned expensive.

They are not theoretically pirate proof.

Example: Doom II, CD-ROM.  Still only 15MB.  Easy enough to Pirate.

And I knew a guy that tried to pirate MegaRace (I think that's the name...),
his largest partition was 1MB too small (the game is over 500MB).  He would
have pirated it, but he didn't want to bother with repartitioning his drive.

Big hard drives are becoming very common.  And Zip and Jaz drives are also
becoming more and more common.  One Jaz cartridge will hold *MUCH* more than
a single CD-ROM.  It'd take a while, but you could copy everything off of a
CD-ROM onto a Jaz drive, and viola, one pirated CD for the cost of a Jaz
cartridge.

-CyberSkater