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From: Aron_Fingers_Nelson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
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Date: 4 Mar 91 01:11:21 GMT
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I'd like to make a tiny comment on this "painless" copy protection issue.
Some programs which do this sort of thing (checking for multiple copies on 
a network) automatically turn on AppleTalk to do their c.p. work.  The
problem is, for MIDI (music) users this will screw up serial communication
to the MIDI interface -- I think it turns off interrupts now and then.
In any case, this causes *major* headaches for people in the music world.
I just wanted to bring this up because this *not* a painless copy protection
method.

aron_nelson@cup.portal.com