| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 23:06:34 |
| Subject: | Re: Keyfiles (was Re: Amiga Piracy) |
On 17-Aug-00, Jonathan Day wrote:
> All this of course relies on a good manual protection, otherwise
> no-one would bother with the online process...
Sculpt4D had this manual protection system. It was a real nuisance in
use.
And it can be easily bypassed by any good hacker, who simply has to find
the call to the manual-checking routine and replace it by NOPs.
Fortunately it wasn't long before a cracked version of Sculpt4D
appeared, so that those of us who have legal copies can use the program
in peace. (As well as with a clear conscience).
Dongles (Lightwave) are equally unpractical in any multi-user environment
such as a college, as they can be stolen. And they are expensive.
I suspect chastity belts went out of fashion because the husbands kept
losing the key.
Regards
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