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Re: Copy protection schemes

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From: Oz
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <6us5q7$ald$2@news-sj-2.cisco.com>, Scott A. Moore
<samiamREMOVE@cisco.com> writes

>There is a good rule of thumb for this kind of thing. If you are worried
>about your code being ripped off enough to spend serious amounts of time
>working on a copy protection scheme, then you don't have anything
>really worth copying.

Much truth in that. Once upon a time it was a fun exercise though.
I think dongles are still about for the paranoid.

-- 
Oz
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From: Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Copy protection schemes
Date: 1998/09/30
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