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Conceptually, it might work in a near-perfect world, but not in the real
world-- (in my opinion).
If I understand your concept, it relies on a registration number that could
be traced back to the original purchaser. Since the majority of people who
attempt day-trading generally blow out long before having a chance to learn
the ropes-- many copies of TS would be floating around and available to be
purchased. Any one copy could be used to duplicate many copies of TS using
cheaply reproduced CDs.
It wouldn't be worth Omega's time to go after one offending party (unless
maybe he was George Soros :) in attempt to recover damages from the pirated
set of CDs. Any scheme that takes control of the software out of Omega's
hands leaves them vulnerable to become a victim of piracy hackers and
potentially could bring them down.
In another scenario, someone could purchase a copy of TS under a bogus name
directly from Omega-- clone it in Hong Kong the next day and the horse would
be out of the barn for good.
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At 11:40 am 1/30/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>Given the moderate number of TS sold it is possible to code a
>personal authentication code of the client into the software.
>Basically you would get one standard CD with the main part of the
>software and a custom burnt CD or diskette with the rest of the
>software and some authentication code cleverly hidden somewhere in
>it. (Given the speed of todays computers such a dll or exe could be
>compiled in no time and be transferred to disk.) This would allow
>the user to copy his software for safety reasons and deter him from
>selling the software illegally because it could be traced back.
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>Gerrit Jacobsen
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