[Coco] Copy-protected software (was Raspberry Pi)

[Arthur Flexser]

David Ladd's post about floppy emulation and protected software brings
to mind a question I've never seen discussed in relation to CoCo
software:

Now that the CoCo community seems to find it pretty noncontroversial
to make available for download formerly commercial software except in
cases where the author explicitly objects...

I wonder what the feeling is about posting deprotected copies of
originally protected CoCo software?  This would make the software much
more widely available and prevent its being lost to posterity.

All my CoCo stuff was given away years ago, so I'm asking this simply
as an observer interested in what opinions might be about this
ethically somewhat ticklish question.

Or perhaps there's already a lot of formerly-protected stuff in the
list database that I'm unaware of?

Art

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Ladd <drencor at gamepixel.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:43 PM, <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>
>> You should be able to run a DriveEire Server on a RaspberryPi.
>> Isn't that a bit better than just a Virtual Floppy Disk?
>>
>
> Well drivewire server is good for the 256 byte sectored disk images, but
> when it comes to copy protected floppy disks a way of true full floppy
> emulation is needed in this case.  I know that a device that can fully
> emulate the MFM so that copy protection can be backed up is best for this
> type of project.
>
> Drivewire server is great for a lot of things except for copy protected
> floppy disk images.
>
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