Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?

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From: Mark Stephen Kidder
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 16:07

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In article <125@complex.complex.is>, frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes...
-It would only work if the user copied your software with a COPY comand...
-if he used DISKCOPY or any disk-duplication software, the serial number
-would be copied as well.

You could just edit the boot record after making the copy to match S/Ns.
So DOS diskette S/Ns are not a reliable method of copy protection.  There
are a number of ways to go about this, but going into that isn't really
necessary.

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From: ludwig@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Stephen Kidder)
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