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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
Michael,
You've produced some of the best-received ebooks in the magic field. Could you discuss what, if anything, you've done to prevent unauthorized copies from being made and distributed, and how that's working out for you? Listening with pecuniary interest, Curtis
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Scott Fridinger Special user Gloucester Pt, VA 893 Posts |
Hey Curtis, don't want to speak prematurely, but I have bought several of Michael's e-books to include his Closely Guarded Secrets. They don't seem to me to have very much protection attached. He does protect the PDF's so they can not be altered, but there isn't a limit on copies and the CD for CGS was not protected at all. I do believe he mentioned this in the e-book, that they did not copy protect it, leaving it up to the owner to "do the right thing." Now, I may be totally off-base here, and if I am, sorry.
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
That's what I've heard, and I can also say that I've never been offered a bootleg copy of any of Michael's material, nor have I seen anyone with anything that looked like a copy. However, it's hard to tell in the eformat.
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mclose V.I.P. 306 Posts |
I got my first computer sometime around 1985. It was an Apple IIe, and I bought it to interface it with my Yamaha DX7 sythesizer. The IIe was the first and last computer that I really knew everything about how it worked; I wrote basic programs, I wrote machine language code, and one of the first things I learned to do was to crack the copy protection on disks. The reason I learned was not to pirate, but to make a back-up of the disk that had my DX7 program on it. If that disk ever became defective, I was in trouble.
Over the years I've decided that copy-protecting my products was a waste of time. Generally speaking, copy protection only inconveniences the legitimate user, and no matter what type of protection I installed, some 13-year old kid would hack it in a week. Consequently, I am sure that for every legitimate copy of the the Workers books and the ebooks that are out there, there are 10-20 knockoffs. I can only ask two things: 1) That those who have purchased the products respect the work that went into producing them and not make illegal copies. 2)That everyone do their part to instill in others the importance and value of those who create (in any medium). Music, art, movies, books, and card tricks don't fall out of the sky. Real human beings produce them, and if their efforts enrich your life in some way, they should be rewarded. End of sermon. Thanks for listening. Close |
sirbrad Inner circle PA 2096 Posts |
"Generally speaking, copy protection only inconveniences the legitimate user."
I agree with that strongly, and I have several PC games that I bought and paid for, and cannot run them because of conflictions with the copyright software. Yet hackers out there are still playing them all for free, while the buyer is being screwed. This leaves a very bad taste in my mouth, and only influences me not to buy any more products from said companies. Great post, and I agree with it all strongly. Hackers will always find a way, but buyers may not.
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method or procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers. -- Harry Houdini
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
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On 2007-01-14 17:28, mclose wrote:I am sure that for every legitimate copy of the the Workers books and the ebooks that are out there, there are 10-20 knockoffs. Since I own a ligitimate copy, if I found this to be true I'd be disguested. If I were the author, I don't know how I'd feel. It's a shame. I've heard of websites that house tons of copyrighted material and give it all away for free under the claim "knowledge is free" or some crap like that. I've read about people teaching moves and tricks on uTube under the claim that "I'm teaching this to the people that cannot afford it. Just becuase you're poor doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to do the magic trick." It all makes me sick. It's a shame they can all hide behind their keyboards.
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