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Re: Register codes are nice... but what about piracy?



On Tue, 21 Feb 1995 pageone@netcom.com wrote:

> 	I like the idea of having register codes, but I'm worried that if 
> just ONE gets out to alt.2600 or IRC, the entire scheme might come back 
> to haunt ARDI...  I'm worried about piracy.
> 	Thinking about it, could it be possible to implement some sort of 
> a coding scheme which could take something like a credit card number 
> (provided by the user), and a serial number which would ONLY work with 
> that card # (provided by ARDI).  This would make it highly undesirable 
> for someone to post a code, given that they're also posting a code which 
> could very possibly be used against them.  However, they could cancel the 
> card right before they post... :(
> 	Basically, I know it's tough, but transmog files are better 
> anti-piracy weapons... (then again, someone could uuencode executor and 
> post it... aargh, but that applies to anything nowadays.  I even saw what 
> someone claimed to be a Windows 95 beta in the /usr/hack/tmp directories 
> here on Netcom...  I didn't try it - I'm on MSDN 2 anyway, so I'll get it
> legally in March :)

Perhaps something akin to TIA's .tiarc authentication scheme. Seems to be 
a MD5 hash of pertainant information. The difficult part is uniquely 
identifying a machine - and I'm against using a machine's primary 
interface IP number (my poor Linux box is forever changing IPs).

Anyway, take a look at TIA's scheme: http://marketplace.com/
Personnally, I prefer TERM as TIA's SLIP seems a tad chunky.

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