| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 20:01:00 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
Hi Everybody,
> So when your harddrive has a funny turn and corrupts your keyfile,
> and then you get strange error messages, or made to look like a
> complete **** on IRC or your harddrive gets formatted
> unexpectedly...?
>
> Shapeshifter and AmIRC. Two programs to add to my list of stuff not
> to use.
>
> That really is just not the way to handle pirated software.
But, that'd only happen if your hd corruption somehow made the
keyfile mutate into one identical to the pirate one. Keyfiles work
by using some kind of encryption (usually of user name/address)
followed by a checksum. If the keyfile is invalied, it'd either say
so, or be rejected.
Only the keyfile matching the certain user name of the pirate
version would trigger the anti-pirate hd bomb. Or at least thats
how it should be done (maybe without the hd bomb tho)...
IIRC, there was actually a virus checker that corrupted the rdb of
anyone using the pirate keyfile. The author removed this feature
though
See ya :)
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