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January 21, 2004 Link to this post
Peter Tamte talks about Piracy
A couple of days ago, the Mac version of Halo was updated to 1.03, allowing Mac users to play with their PC brethren. The update also added a copy-protection scheme that required that the CD be in the machine in order to play Halo - a major change from the previous version. This change has caused quite a stir in the Mac community... with most people expressing displeasure. Yesterday, Inside Mac Games interviewed Peter Tamte, head of MacSoft, about why this change was made. If you're a disgruntled Mac user... go read this. I was amazed by this snippet:
[...] we have physically tracked more units of Halo being stolen on the Internet than have been sold through stores so far.
Ouch! (Louis Wu 15:42:34 UTC)
