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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Any piracy statistics in the US ??
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Date: 24 Jun 91 15:31:22 GMT
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will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (will) writes:
> 	Getting in on this a little late.  But isn't it possible to program
> 	your software to read the serial numbers on the say (CPU and/or FPU)
> 	before the software will function.  Then all you need to do is require
> 	the purchaser to do is give his/her serial numbers when purchasing the
> 	software and everyones happy.

Except, of course, those people who have a network of fifty machines, any one
of which they might want to run their legally-owned software on.

I mean, one *could* demand that everyone buying a book had to keep it chained
to his bookcase at home.

> 	Of course, maybe the idea is stupid.

Yes, I think so.


mathew