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Brian,
Actually there is a copy protection scheme available for CDs. All I've done is
read about it, I have no idea how effective (if at all) it is.
Also, I called Omega today and spoke with a salesperson and he confirmed TS2000i
will not use the dongle. He said they had too many complaints about it.
Brian Elkins
Brian Massey wrote:
> Who said anything about a floppy? If my TS5 doesn't come on a CDROM I'm
> going to be very upset. To the best of my knowledge you can't copy protect
> a CDROM anyway because (currently) you can't write to it. Pentium III's
> can't be used for copy protection because the serial number can't be written
> to the CD. And even if they were writable, this scheme is easily cracked
> because the code that checks the number has to exist somewhere on the disk.
> Also, there's little chance that you're going to have a removable hardrive
> with windoze and TS and run it on 2 machines. This is remotely possible
> with Win95 (98?) and impossible with NT (I've never seen it done). NT is
> bound to the hardware configuration of the machine you installed it on
> unless the other machine is identical to the original you installed to
> (small chance). So what's the worry? Omega has said that TS would not use
> a block and (inferred) that it would be as open as any say MS product, but
> that installing a copy on a second machine wold violate the licensing
> agreement. If Omega releases their product without a block and without any
> contrived copy protection scheme I will have to applaud but I'm skeptical.
> They'll still make bucketloads.
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