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From: jkm@security.UUCP (Jonathan K.Millen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: copy protection
Message-ID: <1006@security.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 09:23:18 EST
Article-I.D.: security.1006
Posted: Wed Nov 27 09:23:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:12:18 EST
References: <1204@jhunix.UUCP> <763@bbnccv.UUCP> <11016@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1002@security.UUCP> <345@mhuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkm@security.UUCP (Jonathan K.Millen)
Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
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In article <345@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) writes:
>>      An ideal form of copy protection is possible ..., but as soon as
>> it runs on a machine: (1) it will run only on the machine with that 
>serial number; and (2) it becomes copyable.
>>      If the customer gets a new machine, he should be able to send the
>> original disk back to the vendor (as proof of purchase) and get a new
>> unfrozen disk for a nominal charge.
>
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>From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
>
>Please save the word IDEAL for software that I can use on at least 6 different
>machines (1 at home and 5 at work) but will only let the licensed user use
>and not something like a 'licensed machine' use. ...

Sounds like you want a site license for free here.

> ....  Also, I don't think that
>it is acceptable to have to get all new software if your machine gets
>trashed or for some reason gets a new ID number.

I can sympathize with this objection; my Mac has already had a logic board
replacement.  How about this: when you buy the package, it already has
two unfrozen disks in it.  Save one for a disaster or use it on a second
machine (you can still get more, for a price).

Jon Millen

"We should stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before,
not on one another's toes." -a Peter Neumann paraphrase