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From: eli@smectos.gang.umass.edu (Eli Brandt)
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Subject: Re: Posting artwork to the net
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Date: 14 Jan 91 20:52:05 GMT
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In article <4110@3comvax.MCD.3Com.Com> michaelm@vax.MCD.3Com.Com (Michael McNeil) writes:

[background explanation pruned with extreme prejudice]

>Also, we probably won't do the following at first (rather we'll
>post the graphic files themselves), but the artist has expressed an
>interest in the future in incorporating something akin to software
>shareware with her art -- i.e., distributing a restricted version

  This is usually not called "shareware", but "crippleware", or 
other terms even less complimentary.

>of the product having limited capabilities, with a request that
>interested persons purchase the full-blown, unrestricted version
>by mail.  I envision posting a program which either incorporates
>images within the .EXE file, or else reads them in from encrypted
>files, then allows the images to be displayed interactively at the
>viewer's discretion.  However, it would not allow printing the

  Technical note: if you just link the images into the .exe, any fool
will be able to pull them out.  Even if you encrypt them, all you'd 
need would be a screen grabber.  You might consider dropping the
limitations; they're not likely to stop anybody, and people who have
been insulted by their software are notoriously tight-fisted.

>images, using them for wallpaper in Windows, say, etc. -- until the
>interested party contacts the artist and purchases the .GIF files.

>Michael McNeil			michaelm@vax.DSD.3Com.COM (3comvax.UUCP)

 Eli