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From: cosheff@netmbx.UUCP (Charles Shefflette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
Message-ID: <395@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 22:24:58 GMT
References: <2796@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> <90080.140503CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, West Germany
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CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:


>In article <2796@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>, dartus@datlog.co.uk ( David Artus) says:
>>
>>We wish to evaluate possible copy protection methods that could
>>be used for PC software. One option we have examined is the use of
>>a "dongle", could anybody suggest alternative methods (or references to
>>articles which discuss them) which might not need the use of specific
>>hardware.

>I only have one piece of advice:  No copy protection scheme is safe.

Here, here!! Make sure you post what software you decide to copy protect
so that we DON'T ACCIDENTLY PURCHASE IT!  I make it a FIRM POLICY for
my private software and the software we purchase at work NOT to purchase
a package that is copy protected if we can find ANYTHING ELSE which will
serve even a similar purpose!

The bottom line: copy protection is something we can all live without,
              ***** JUST SAY NO!! *****

Charles Shefflette
System Engineer