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- From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
- Message-ID: <de19-171292172316@mac19-pg2.umd.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:42:58 GMT
- References: <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Dec15.121756.23075@kth.se> <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU> <1992Dec17.162820.12863@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Dec17.105813.18407@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.105813.18407@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
- ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias) wrote:
- >
- >
- > > In article <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU>, roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
- > > >
- > > > I personally think it was a major mistake for Apple
- > > > to not have put some sort of machine-readable serial number in each machine.
- > >
- > > The trouble with providing a feature like that is that people will start to
- > > use it.
- > >
- > > Can you say "copy protection"...?
- > >
- > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
- >
- >
- > Isn't that the idea? If you are going to have a copy protection scheme,
- > I'd think that would be the best type. Least amount of hassle for the
- > user, yet still protects the software industry's interests. Of course,
- > if you're in the habit of pirating software maybe it's not in your
- > interests...
- >
- > I'm a little surprised that the software industry hasn't latched onto
- > this idea and lobbied hard for it. It seems like the ideal solution
- > to software piracy. Of course, it wouldn't stop piracy entirely but
- > it would certainly put a serious dent in it.
-
-
- OK, now that would either be in a custom chip or in the Roms, but in either
- case it would be WELDED on to the logic board, right?
-
- Now what happens when a logic board needs service? Since the board now
- must stay with the machine, you have just forced all apple dealers to
- perform componant level diagnosis and repair, this is a dramatic change
- from present policy, and on which APple is likely to regard as a giant step
- backward.
-
- Oh, and just how would one deal with a faulty Rom chip, or a ROM upgrade
- (remember the SCSI problems in the first and second versions of the 128k
- roms?).
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- Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
-