| From: | Jonathan Day |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2000 at 19:14:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Keyfiles (was Re: Amiga Piracy) |
Hi Don
> > 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.
Which I acknowledged, and is why people online would use the keyfile with
*occasional* online verification process.
> 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.
This is why I stated 'casual' pirates, i.e. lending your copy to a mate
knowing full well he would copy it. I do not have the knowledge to do as
you say above, neither will (some) others. I realise it would pose little
threat to dedicated pirates.
> 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).
But using my keyfile method would mean you didn`t have to own that pirate
version anyway...
> I suspect chastity belts went out of fashion because the husbands kept
> losing the key.
Perhaps sometimes on purpose ;-)
Jon
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