[luau] the end user price for lousy copy protection schemes

[Luis aka Rigpa]

I have seen numbers thrown around of how much buggy software costs end 
users.  But one number I have never seen is how much copyright protection 
schemes costs end users?  For example, you legally buy some commercial 
software package and the key number is ether lost, stolen, or is burned on a 
fire.  Or the key number has problems, or a bug requires you to re-enter the 
key number every time you use the package, or the 'original disk' is in 
5.24" floppies, or the lisense management sheme is difficult to set up.

How much does it costs the end user to have to deal with with all the crap 
associated with copy protection?  I bet that's an good selling point for 
OpenSource, because if there is one thing that pisses me off is not being 
able to run a software I paid for because of some chessy copy protection 
scheme.

Luis.

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