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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
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Date: 29 Jan 91 05:20:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.202316@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
> 
> 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.

One problem with this idea is the amazing number of people who don't
use their name in the chooser.  I've looked around a number of nets
and you see people called "beach bunny", "superman", and the ever
popular "Mac II".

-- michael


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