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From: jr@fortune.UUCP (John A. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.micro
Subject: Re: Software Piracy
Message-ID: <2978@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 17:33:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 17:33:22 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Apr-84 01:15:42 EST
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Re: backups vs. protected software

On some systems (e.g. the various Fortune UNIX-based systems), it is possible
to have protected software that can be backed up.  Unfortunately, it requires
that the original (and the copies) can somehow be "serialized" to a given
machine, maybe via a serial number in a ROM of some sort.  I realize that this
isn't applicable to all systems, but it is a possibility.

Didn't I hear something (a year ago?) about one or more chip manafacturers
offering CPU chips that had serial numbers in them?  (SEEQ is probably
working on something along those lines, I would guess).

				See ya!
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				JR (John Rogers)
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