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- From: pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WARNING!! Pirated escaped Directory Opus 3.50 BETA damages disks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.184120.10018@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:41:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug6.222247.2138@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
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- In article <1992Aug4.155347.25480@nmsu.edu> pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes:
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- >There's a saying in this part of the US: trust everybody, but brand
- >your calves. Serial-numbering your Beta copies might not be a bad
- >idea next time -- that way, you've got your leak with the first
- >pirated copy you find.
-
- My suggestion would be just that, but do it so that no one knew about the
- serial number but yourself; ie, any time your program shows a serial number,
- the natural tendancy of someone spreading illegal copies is to find that
- number and change it. Now we have a new problem...
-
- Instead of advertising that serial number, have it in there, but only in
- such a way know to your (the programmer) self. Or am I reinventing the
- wheel, here? :)
-
- Oh, that's what I meant! It's just a little constant tucked away in
- the binary, that is never referenced by anything. Have to look at
- the binary to even know it's there.
-
- Another tradition in this part of the country is called the ``Running
- Iron,'' which is used to modify somebody else's brand when you steal
- their cattle...
-
- -Joe.
-