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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: copy protection
Message-ID: <420@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 13:57:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 13:57:23 1985
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4Diehm.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

>     From the various objections I've seen to copy protection based on
>freezing copyable software on a ROM serial number, it appears that the
>REALLY ideal scheme should identify the purchaser rather than the
>machine.  The software should freeze on the buyer's fingerprint, or
>some other personal characteristic which (unlike a password) can't be
>given away.  I wish I could think of a way to do that.

I'm FAR from being a midwest Bible-thumper, but that book DOES indeed refer
(apocryphally) to such a scheme - all we need do is put an identifying mark
on every person.  Revelations mentions forehead or wrist.  What with the
banks being antsy about volumnious losses over credit card scams, and what
with suggestions like the above, it seems pretty inevitable.

Personally, this scares the s*it out of me.  I prefer a world where at least
some crime is still possible - civil disobedience may be our only form of
protest someday!

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (Solely my opinions, folks!)