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Yes, I'm sure there is one (there's probably several) but it's crackable and
it's probably expensive. (Actually MS has a small CPS by packing more than
650Megs on a CD). Anyway if it was so (price/deterrant) effective I think
companies like MS would have been using it a long time ago. Again, my point
is that even if TS5 is copy protected the average person will not be able to
copy it but will have unlimted installtion ability which means it's not
bound to a single machine pentium 3 or no. This will probably violate the
licensing agreement though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Elkins [mailto:belkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 6:30 PM
To: bnm@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: List, Omega
Subject: Re: TS2000i upgrade
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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