Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!decwrl!wuarchive!texbell!texsun!convex!iex!ntvax!jbeard From: jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley) Newsgroups: swnet.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: copy protect Message-ID: <1990Jan10.193813.11419@ntvax.uucp> Date: 10 Jan 90 19:38:13 GMT References: <399@lkbpyr.UUCP> Reply-To: jbeard@ntvax.UUCP (Jeff Beardsley) Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 17 How do you copy protect?: YOU DO NOT! Sure it is possible to copy protect, through various unsavory means, but as already discussed in the ancient past (2-3 years ago), even the most vile offenders, (Lotus Corp., and Ashton Tate) have stopped for the most part. One different possibility is to allow users to copy to their hearts content, and have changing passwords or a codebook, etc, so that only the buyer (hypothetically) can use it. Still, if you would like the software user to respect you as a software author/distributor, don't even do this, just let them use it. -- ----- --------------------- ----- Any similarity between my opinions and the opinion of any other person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.