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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.202316@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:23:16 GMT
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hi there,

severeal people mentioned one problem, that is tracking down the offender
when finding that someone already uses my copy.
Actually that is very very easy. Get yourself a traffic watch program
and you can see the peoples names, the nodes number, the serial number of
the programm using that copy protection mode and so on. Then simply look
for the node where your program runs, rememeber the node number and
search for some entry telling you the name or position (whatever name you
give in the chooser). Then all you have to do is to place a lot of flames
on the person who stole your program.

The second thing someone mentioned, was that there will be a fuss about
the serial numbers of the programs...
How about a "site license" and COUNTING the copies of the program running
on the net? Then a message like "Sorry, to many people using this program
right now...". This would cause a lot of traffic on startup, but if you have more than say 20 macs you should use ethernet anyway... and the programs don't have
to cry "I'm here!" all the time, do they?

have fun, anyway

Oliver "Broke" Breidenbach