| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 09:06:13 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
Andy Wanless said,
> So there's 2 situations. A corrupted keyfile should either just cause the
> program to fail when it starts, or revert to an "unregistered" state.
Which is what happens.
> A
> pirated keyfile would either have to be known about by a later version of
> the program and fail with a suitably sarcastic message,
Which is also what happens.
> or would involve
> the program contacting a server with a list of pirated keyfiles, without
> you knowing about it.
I'm not aware of any Amiga program that does this.
> Do I need to point out what I think of any software
> that runs off talking to a server without you knowing about it as soon as
> you're online?
Miami used to send your details to a server if a *known pirated keyfile*
was detected, but Kruse abandoned that approach a while ago. However, I
didn't have a problem with the method as it only happened if both
keyfiles matched a list of known pirated files..
Neil
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