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Recently there was law introduced to discourage this sort of behaviour.
If I recall correctly, anyone caught with $2500 or more worth of
pirated software, will receive a faily harsh fines (100K+) and
mandatory prison.

Naturally this type of legislation is difficult to enforce on a
'small' pirate. However, it is inteded is to make companies honest
when it comes to software licensing issues, which is IMHO where the
biggest loss can happen. Just imagine an office that has 10 computers.
They buy one copy of your favorite word processor, and then install it
on all of their machines. If this is done for say 3 packages at each
averaging $250 that = $6700 of lost revenue. A lot for many smaller
companies.

I'll dig out the information, and post it in full detail, I believe there's 
even an 800 number for people to squeal on the pirate(s).

I believe that the best way is to have a combination of what Louis
Mamakos presented. I like the idea of run-time licesing. This way,
you have freedom to run them in your computer. In an office environment,
you can buy 4 licenses, you try to run a 5th, and "please call
800 ... to purchase an additional license.." a neat remider/sales pitch.

Later,


 
-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>