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Article #56Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?
From: walter misar
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 10:18
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 10:18
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GRRRRRR !! In article <1992Nov3.164319.4116@msdhsv.ingr.com>, john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com (John Eason) writes: > > 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. ... and if the user happens to buy a new floppy or a new system: His program will just crash, while all users who obtained a cracked version have actually an improved version. The best Copyprotection is still a good documentation and a good service. Walter
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!rrz.uni-koeln.de!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!misar From: misar@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (walter misar) Subject: Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ? Sender: news@news.th-darmstadt.de (The News System) Message-ID: <1992Nov4.111846@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:18:46 GMT References: <1992Nov3.164319.4116@msdhsv.ingr.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: rbhp59.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 16