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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
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Subject: Re: protection
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Date: 21 Feb 91 20:54:35 GMT
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The best anti-pirate scheme I have seen is the one that Creative Focus
uses for DJHelper: Each disk is encoded with a unique number. As long
as the legitimate purchaser sends in the registration card, a copy of
DJHelper that makes it on to the pirate boards, if it is noted by
Creative Focus, can be traced. You are warned in the manual that people
who do transfer it without authorization that they will "be subject to
public censure and other remedies as provided by law." As long as
the user sends in the registration, and, with a program as frequently
upgraded as DJHelper, there's no reason NOT to send in the registration.

Any other ideas?

                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
                                ~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~