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From: jjw@igloo.Scum.COM (John Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How defeat Everlock?
Keywords: Protection, Voyetra, MIDI
Message-ID: <1352@igloo.Scum.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 02:16:37 GMT
References: <301@infovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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In article <301@infovax.UUCP> bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson) writes:
>  is there anyone who knows how to circiumvent the Everlock protection
>system? Today I bought Voytera Sequencer Plus MKI (MIDI sequencer),
>only to find it is copy-protected, something I thought most reasonable
>software houses abandoned years ago. One can either run it from the
>release diskettes, or install it (twice) on the hard disk. However
>if after installing on the hard disk one uses a disk optimizer, or
>'certain DOS utilities' as the manual says, the program may become
>unrunnable.
>
>  Note as I said that I legally bought this software and want to make
>legal backups. If you don't want to spread the solution to everybody,
>mail me directly.

	I've made a serious stab at dis-assembling this stuff, as I am
rather annoyed by this same thing. The software is downright clever!
(most certainly a 3-pipe problem, Watson ;-).

	The best I've done to date is to install it, then *image* back up
my hard drive to a tape (handy little gadget! :-), un-install it and
image recover my hard drive. This leaves all the installs intact, while
allowing me to run my program [btw - my hardware is in a constant state of
flux, and almost weekly I swap in/out 10 new things, frequently trashing the
drives in the process. I cannot take time to un-install *everything* every
day.]

	As for un-fragmenting programs, I use VOPT by Golden Bow and it has
enough sense not to move those files. As long as they are not touched,
you'll be fine.

	Had I known this software was copy-protected, I would NOT!!! have
bought it, period. It is useless without the MIDI hardware, which to me is
more than enough copy protection. If they had invested half as Path: igloo!attctc!texbell!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!wrgate!midas!jeffw
From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: "Symphony," "Sonata," etc.:  another