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- From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
- Subject: Re: Using the serial # in ROM as a copy protection mechanism...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.163540.21795@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Dec17.230932.16643@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1gte4tINNs3r@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:35:41 GMT
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- > louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
- >
- > You either trust your users or not. 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. This is the approach that I like, and the
- > one that I use for the software that I write.
-
- Well, I know for a fact that at least one of my customers has
- violated the trust. However, I like your scheme. Question is:
- What do you do if/when you find a pirated copy? Has it happend you
- you yet?
-
- Edgar
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- Edgar Matias
- Input Research Group
- University of Toronto
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- I speak for no one...
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