Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?

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From: John Eason
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 16:43

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Hello,

  I noticed with DOS 5.0 that each floopy and hard disk has a unique
  serial number. I would like to access this serial number from code.
  If my code could check the number against a known serial number
  I could detect whether the user has copied my code to another disk.
  I am trying to hinder the piracy of my software as you might have
  guessed. If anyone has any info it would be greatly appreciated.

  Email is prefered. Thanks.


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*     John S Eason                           *
*     Intergraph Corporation    GO GATORS    *
*     Huntsville, Alabama                    *
*                                            *
*     john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com            *
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From: john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com (John Eason)
Subject: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?
Message-ID: <1992Nov3.164319.4116@msdhsv.ingr.com>
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 16:43:19 GMT
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