Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Idea for Hardware Protection
Message-ID: <578@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 14:22:51 GMT
References: <8801090958.AA20842@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> <559@gethen.UUCP> <8801110748.AA08867@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <8801110748.AA08867@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> lupin3%ucscb.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.UCSC.EDU writes:
>  And I like the idea of dongles better than the idea of having software
>companies spending money to try to protect software, and it all being for
>naught...

How about the idea of not spending money to protect software AND not
having dongles either?  Copy protection, whether hardware or software,
is an idea doomed to failure - there is NO scheme so airtight that
anyone sufficiently dedicated to defeating it cannot, short of distributing
software only as monolithic IC's with the processor and the ROM on the
same chip (and I don't doubt that some enterprising person could
even defeat THAT if they chose).

Let's agree to disagree, eh?  This argument is taking up a LOT of space,
to no particular avail.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame