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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.
- Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
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