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In article <3avo02fi1c4V01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent  
L. Shephard) writes:
> In article <1992Jul30.205006.11190@cs.yale.edu>  
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
> >In article <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM> mmelling@Trirex.com(Michael  
> >Mellinger) writes:
> >
> >3. Copy protected the software so people couldn't steal it, which
> >I have seen done (with WP as well).
> 
> Copy protection sucks.  If it is like the stuff on MMa I wouldn't buy
> the product.  On the other hand if it justs sticks my machine name and
> my name on a panel showing the registered user I wouldn't mind.

The contortions one has to go through to register MMa,
especially multiple copies, are not representative of
a good copy protection scheme which protects the program
but doesn't hassle the user.  We have other apps that are
copy protected that weren't nearly the hassle to register
and use, but still can't be stolen by someone copying
them - they just work in demo mode without a valid keyfile.

But let's not start the whole copy protection war again...

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Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)