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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
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Subject: Re: Re: what's wrong with this protection?
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 19:28:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 19:28:21 1985
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>...........
> If you want to follow this tack (I don't particularly), you might
> consider a ROM cartridge scheme. All of the newer processors have
> humongous addressable memory spaces (68020, 32032, etc.) It should
> not be difficult (or as expensive as a CD drive) to include about 
> half a dozen ROM cartridge slots in a PC. ( I'm sure I don't use
> more than six software packages on a *regular* basis. )
>... 
> This scheme would provide a rugged, easily transferable medium that
> cannot be copied nearly as easily as a floppy. You also have something
> that is really just a glorified dongle, incorporating the program into
> the key. 
> 
> 
> Rick Sellens

The same type of problem with ROMs as with CDs: you still can
copy the code onto other media.  

The solution is not to limit copying, but to limit executing!

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