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.

Doom II is not distributed exclusively on CD-ROM, and is not typical of
CD-ROM games in that it is so small. Try something like 7th Guest.

> 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.

Again, how cost effective is this really?


> 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.

What does a Jaz cartridge cost, and how much does it hold?

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