Re: Backup games CDs?

Rick Cortese wrote:


Several people suggested back up program$ to which Nostromo said ~cracked copies => free backup w/o copy protection. He is a trusting soul, I don't trust much d/l off pira* <cough> abandonware sites. Eventually you get burned so you have to figure that into the cost of doing business.

Rick

I've never been burned once by a crack in many years of using them. Sure, I have had a couple that don't work correctly and even a couple that mess up the game but never a trojan or virus injected into one. That's for cracks though and not pirated copies of games so don't know about those.
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