[ILUG-BOM] OT - stopping CD piracy

[Philip S Tellis]

Sometime Today, Mayuresh Kulkarni assembled some asciibets to say:

> how do s/w vendors ensure that a customer who buys a CD can use it
> to install the s/w only on his computer and if he takes a CD dump,
> the second CD will be of no use to anybody else?

There is no foolproof way.  All methods tried so far have been cracked.
I haven't seen any software that does this though.  With floppies, there
used to be a few sectors at specific places that were marked.  If the
disk didn't have these sectors, it was considered a copy.  Maybe the
same is done for CDs.

Philip

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