🚀 go-pugleaf

The thought makes me uneasy, although I have a hard time coming up with a
fully rational reason why. I guess it just strikes me as another step
toward Big Brotherism. Or maybe it's just another somewhat misguided
attempt to keep honest people honest. It shouldn't bother me that
*someone* would be able to examine my dwg files and know that I (1) used
a fully licensed copy of R** to create/edit it, or even (2) that *my*
Acad serial number is 110-*******, especially since about 90% of the time
I'm the only one who works on my particular drawings. But...

From a practical standpoint, whose fingerprint should really go in the
file? The originator? The last to save the file? Or should there be space
to record the complete "editing chain" of users who might edit the file
during its lifetime? If the information is to be used to enforce
intellectual property protection, or to track down pirates, or whatever,
what safeguards will there need to be to prevent it from being misused in
some way yet to be "invented"?
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"Tony Tanzillo" <tony.tanzillo@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:38B28858.309F1A5F@worldnet.att.net...
> Does anyone have any thoughts on Autodesk's adding a
> "FingerPrint GUID" and "Version GUID" to every AutoCAD
> 2000 .DWG file?