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From: berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: copy protection
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 13:14:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 13:14:13 1985
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>    BOTH options should be available to the purchaser.  The software should
> be able to sit on one machine and let anyone come along and use it.  It
> should also be able to be moved to another machine.  So I think that all
> this talk about "freezing" misses the point.  The protection needed, to
> allow normal and effective use of the software, and yet to
> assure compliance with copyright law, is some method to prevent (multiple)
> concurrent use by >1 person  OR by >1 machine.
> --henry schaffer

I got it!  Put little radio transmitters in every disk that continuously
broadcast what program is being run from them :-).
-- 

	David W. Berry
	{ucbvax,pyramid,idsvax,bene,oliveb}!tolerant!berry

	[Don't shoot the Tolerant Systems, I'm just the consultant]