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- In article <1994Dec21.184025.81194@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, tomcole@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Thomas M. Cole) says:
- > - Hardware dongle which will be cracked
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- Actually, the nifty $20 wholesale-cost dongles from places like Rainbow
- Technologies haven't been cracked. Has 3D Studio been cracked? Not
- completely, after at least four years.
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- > - Crappily written disk copy prevention schemes which can be cracked
- > and usually end up screwing up the original disks anyway
- > - go to page 157 and enter the 3rd word in last paragraph which sucks
- > and isn't effective with the advent of the photocopier
- > - issue the new release of the software on CD ROM and require the
- > CD ROM to be in the drive at program launch
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- This isn't the gamut of CP schemes. My personal favorite is a program
- that examines the amount of memory, hard drives, cards, etc. are in a
- computer, uses that to make a "fingerprint", and uses that to determine
- when it pesters to ask for any of the above... It might only ask for
- a word from the manual when you change your system, which for most people
- is "rarely."
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