Re: Matchlock protection schemes
Re: Matchlock protection schemes
- Subject: Re: Matchlock protection schemes
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:26:04 +0200
on 29/05/2002 03:01, Tom Beckenham at email@hidden wrote:
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What we were thinking was to have a serial that works anywhere (no
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per-machine locking), but when the user enters the serial number, the
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software would connect to our server and log the user's Ethernet hardware
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address.
What if you did a hostID number in combo of the motherboard so that only the
holders of the original disc could install the software, and copy protection
on the CD? Final Cut Pro 3 works this way I believe.
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This way we could track how many people were using the one number.
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It would only connect once when entering the serial, so you would only have
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to be on the net the first time you run. If we found that a serial was used
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many times we could then contact the user. This would allow us to make a
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judgment call if we thought our product was being pirated.
This is very good. What I would like to see.
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However, we wouldn't be shipping a fully functional demo. This would prevent
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hackers turning a demo into a full product. They would actually have to buy
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one copy before looking at it.
Why not. OR make a smaller demo available on demand.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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