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From:Alan Buxey
Date:18 Aug 2000 at 17:14:38
Subject:Re: Amiga Piracy

hi,

> to *every machine in the world* is much harder - and to make it easier, if
> your machine has a network card fitted, the MAC address is incorporated into
> the string.

on most of these cards, the MAC address can be changed ;-)

> The outcry last year happened because Office'97 docs were including one of
> these GUIDs - and it suddenly dawned on people that this could theoretically
> be used to match a document with the machine on which it was written.

:-)

then there was the outcry with the Intel Pentium II/III and its unique ID
number... people just didnt like it!

alan

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