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From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: what's wrong with this protection?
Message-ID: <15957@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 21:34:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 21:34:31 1985
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In article <21900063@uiucuxc> grayson@uiucuxc.Uiuc.ARPA writes:
>But, of course, any software on a CD could be copied onto a floppy and
>run from the floppy.

Perhaps it would be possible to query what kind of device we were reading
from.  Then the program could refuse to run if it wasn't running on a
CD player.  (Of course someone would sell a gizmo to make your floppy
drive look like a CD player ...

John