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     ARTICLE TAKEN FROM COMPUTER TRADE WEEKLY, EUROPES TOP TRADE MAGAZINE

                       DATE - SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 92

                        SCANNED BY EXECUTIONER/QUARTEX

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                    SEGA GETS READY TO STRIKE OFF A DOCTOR

Sega  is  poised to come down hard on a new Megadrive cartridge copying device
currently being imported into France and Germany.

The  peripheral,  marketed  as  The  Game  Doctor,  plugs  into  the  top of a
Megadrive.   Cartridges  then slot into the top of the Doctor which also has a
slot for 3.5 inch disks which the games can be downloaded onto.

The  disks  can  only be played through a Game Doctor on a Megadrive, however,
they cannot be played on any other 3.5 inch disk using machines.

Sega  is  aware  of  the machines, which have been on sale in the Far East for
some time, and its legal team is currently assessing what action to take.

It  certainly  seems  as if it will take action.  International director Barry
Jafrato told CTW "We believe that downloading onto disk is technically illegal
and  unlike  the record/cassette argument there is also no other reason to buy
that  can  be  put  forward  by the manufacturers other than to copy games and
avoid paying for them."

It  could  possibly  be  argued that the Game Doctor is providing a backing up
service  but  with cartridges having a far higher reliability rate than disks,
it hardly stacks up.

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