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Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
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Date: 28 Jan 91 02:24:50 GMT
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From article <2e5Fw1w163w@tosh.UUCP>, by starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta):
> Similar methods are already in use by several companies and it works 
> painlessly. I certainly believe that if protection is necessary, this is
> the way to do it.

I believe that something like the proposed scheme is used by PC-NFS,
and the customers hate it.  Consider yourself as the person that has
to install the UNIQUE copy on each machine, and having to keep track
of which machine has which serial number.  Think about that for
dozens, or hundreds of machines.
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu