Re: Making a computer run on only one computer
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From: <president at insight-concepts.com>
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Downfall to this is: If the end use changes his/her system, then that
key becomes useless. That is why major software companies do not
bother with this form of software protection.
Whew!!!
Thanks for the good description.
There's a psychological factor involved here, too, which the shareware
programmers
understand well:
If your program is too much bother to use, or violates what people expect to
be able
to do with something they have bought and paid for, you'll get lots of free
(bad) publicity,
and lose more sales than you gain.
Case in point - Microsoft is getting flamed everywhere for their plan to
have
XP phone home whenever you change hardware in your computer.
Of course, Microsoft promises that you won't have to pay again 'if the
change
is minor', but we all realize they could make new rules at any time.
Their promise isn't in writing. Besides, who believes Microsoft promises,
anyway?
In addition to that, if you devise a really clever protection scheme, that
just becomes a challenge for crackers, and there are more of them than there
are of you.
>No animals were hurt while writing this E-mail :)
No, but billions and billions of innocent electrons were bounced around,
more or less at random, thus contributing to the entropy of the universe as
we know it, and hastening its eventual destruction.
Regards,
Irv
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