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Article #1852Re: copy protection/licensing solution?
From: Robert H. Gross
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:13
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:13
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In article <mwalker-110892145014@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.> mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes: > Unless the password was distributed to all who had a pirated copy. What's > to stop me from recieving the password at work, and taking it home to > unlock my pirated copy. (Purely a hypothetical case!!!!!) The user would call up the company and read a number directly from the computer screen. The number would be generated based on the clock and perhaps the number of files present on the user's open volumes. This number would be unique since it depends on the users configuration AT THE TIME OF THE CALL. Even if he/she were to give the password for license extension to a friend, it would not be likely work on any other system. Bob Gross bob.gross@dartmouth.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!dartvax!Robert.H.Gross From: Robert.H.Gross@dartmouth.edu (Robert H. Gross) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: copy protection/licensing solution? Message-ID: <1992Aug12.171307.16347@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: 12 Aug 92 17:13:07 GMT References: <1992Aug11.193753.29423@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <mwalker-110892145014@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.> Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 18 X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0d55@newshost.dartmouth.edu