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- From: Robert.H.Gross@dartmouth.edu (Robert H. Gross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: copy protection/licensing solution?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.171307.16347@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:13:07 GMT
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- In article <mwalker-110892145014@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>
- mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
-
- > Unless the password was distributed to all who had a pirated copy. What's
- > to stop me from recieving the password at work, and taking it home to
- > unlock my pirated copy. (Purely a hypothetical case!!!!!)
-
- The user would call up the company and read a number directly from the
- computer screen. The number would be generated based on the clock and
- perhaps the number of files present on the user's open volumes. This
- number would be unique since it depends on the users configuration AT
- THE TIME OF THE CALL. Even if he/she were to give the password for
- license extension to a friend, it would not be likely work on any other
- system.
-
-
- Bob Gross
- bob.gross@dartmouth.edu
-