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In article <1992Aug1.023559.7676@physics.ucla.edu>, price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
>In article <1992Jul31.170900.15016@informix.com>, robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
>>In article <mwalker-210792105655@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>  
>>mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:

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>>company would miss that if it were gone, since they would have to shell out for  
>>a whole new copy when upgrade time came! 
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Therein lies the problem.  If someone steals a piece of hardware, someone's 
>bound to notice ("Hey, Joe, your frabbelglortzer's missing!"), but if 
>someone were to "borrow" a piece of software, the theft will go unnoticed 
>until it's upgrade time.  The only way to prevent this kind of theft would 
>be for a company to aggresively protect its software investment at all 
>times.  Methinks such a plan would cause industry to severely restrict who 

I work for Lehigh University Computer Center (LUCC) and it seems to me they
have worked out a very good system for solving this problem.  First they have
to prove to the companies that the software will be protected since companies
regard Universities and the like as high risks for piracy and so tend to make
site licences prohibitivly high (which keeps LUCC from supporting the Macs it
has in any major way... :O[   ).  They keep the software safe by making the ONE
legal copy of the disks and placing the originals immediatly in the safe.
Then they have a software librarian, and any person authorized to use a copy
of the software (professors, LUCC staff, etc.) may borrow the copy disks
for that day only (and the disks must be returned before the end of the
working day).  Users cant walk off with the copies becuase of the protection
on the hard drives (bozo bits set, folder bolt, etc.).  Because the disks
are always locked up at night, and only "responsible people" (ie those who
the site-licence covers) can have the originals, there is ver little chance of
piracy.  Small companys can easily do this by having a software safe who
only the office manager can open, and the staff can borrow the disks from the
manager for a period of time, and the manager always locks up the disks. That
way the emplyess cant waltz out of the office with the disks, and its pretty
obvious that someoune is making a copy of the disks when they start swaping
lots of disks. hmmm... 

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