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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Protecting against copying from hard disks
Message-ID: <836@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 15:17:34 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.836
Posted: Fri Nov  7 15:17:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 06:35:57 EST
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Maybe someone can help me with this one :

At the University of Rochester, we have a Microcomputer Information
Center which serves as a repository of both commercial and PD
software. The University community is thus able to try out a lot of the
packages before actually going out and buying it. We have some of this software
installed on hard disks on XT's and AT's. We try our best to keep anyone
from surreptitiously copying any of the commercial software, including
posting of signs against copying. What we would like to be able to is
to somehow make it difficult for users to copy anything off of our hard disks.
Two things come to my mind on ways of implementing this :

1. If only there was a way to set an attribute of the program to 
   'protected' a la macintosh programs, that would come up with a 
    message saying that this program can not be copied.

2. Another way would be to somehow modify DOS so that copying from
   C: was disabled. If COPY had been an external command, a batch file
   would have done the job.

Any suggestions ? All hints welcome.


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