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- davewarner@server.vircom.com () writes:
- >could then be encrypted into the key file to make it machine specific.
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- >Someone mentioned that IBM's may have serial #'s encoded into each
- >machine's BIOS...I don't know anything about that, but it would be
- >one possible way of keeping the software on one machine only. Another
- >would be to check the time/date stamp on the installed program...
- >this is something that will never change if you set the protect flags
- >and it might be another good way to make sure that the key file would
- >ONLY work with that installed copy of LightWave...copy the program to
- >another machine and you change the file creation time/date stamp, thus
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- Hang on! I agree that the software should be used on one machine at a time
- but I prefer the current arrangement of being able to install it on more
- than one machine - only thr dongled machine can use it.
- This way I can use it both at work and home (my copy not work's) by just
- taking the dongle with me.
- Besides, PC users change or update their BIOS - and then - you gotta
- call to get another code!
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- >the key file would be invalid and the program wouldn't work.
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- >I'm sure there are other problems to be resolved with this method, but
- >in my head, at least, it sounds like it might work.... ....by making
- >the key files available through the NewTek BBS (and Internet?) you
- >eliminate the need for having full-time phone operators to give out
- >key codes and you allow people from around the world to get their needed
- >key files any time they want....not to mention the control that a data
- >encrypted key file would give you guys over what happens to your
- >software!
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- >I hope that you find something of value in these ideas....
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- > -David Warner
- Too much control is not necessarily a good thing...
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- Nik.
- nvukovlj@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
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