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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: Using the serial # in ROM as a copy protection mechanism...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.175359.4500@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1gte4tINNs3r@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:53:59 GMT
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- In article <1gte4tINNs3r@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A.
- Mamakos) writes:
- > The approach that I like is to give the user some piece of
- > information that needs to be supplied to enable the
- > application. This piece of information uniquely
- > identified the *owner* of the software. That way, if it
- > gets "loose", you know who to trace it back to, and thus who
- > violated the terms of the software license agreement.
-
- Does your software respond to a large number of different
- keys? If not, how do you deal with the mass-duplication
- issue?
-
- Gordon
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