Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!holiday
From: holiday@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Holiday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Bozo Bit/File Copying
Keywords: Finder, AppleShare, copying, bozo
Message-ID: <24104@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 29 Jul 90 22:14:32 GMT
Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: holiday@tigger.colorado.edu (Matthew Holiday)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 22

It use to be that there was the so-called "bozo" bit in each
files header, which when set indicated to the Finder that the
file in question should not be copied to another disk.  (Aside:
it was called the "bozo" bit because "only a bozo would be
deterred" by this form of copy protection.

The bozo bit mechanism now being unavailable, I am wondering
if there isn't a way to prevent a file (a program, really) from
being copied off an AppleShare file server to a client.  THe
server's volume will be locked, but that only prevents copying
*to* the server, not from it.  I'm about to have a lab with
commercial applications available to students, and I'd like
to cut down on piracy.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to prevent such copying?
Thanks in advance!



Matt Holiday                    | "If it were done, when 'tis done,
holiday@tigger.colorado.edu     |  Then 'twere well it were done quickly."
University of Colorado, Boulder |               -- Macbeth I.vii