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Article #64Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?
From: Thomas Sippel - Dau
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:14
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:14
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In article <1992Nov3.164319.4116@msdhsv.ingr.com>, john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com (John Eason) writes:
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- 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.
So what you want to do is to force people who pirate your software to also
pirate the copy of MS-DOS under which your program is run ?.
And you want to ensure that your customers who upgrade to DR DOS 6.0 or some
relevant Microsoft effort have to come back to you for a new copy ?
Thomas
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