From: Patrick Lenneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
copy protection
software is amongst the most fragile in existence.
Rather sweeping statement, isn't it?
Someone mentioned a Mac/PC take on copy protection and Id only point
out that Mac OSX users have had quite a few reasons to upgrade their OS
recently and this will likely continue for the foreseeable future. One
would imagine
Well, I've updated my mac OS several times over the last couple of years and
never had any problems with any of the dongles/challenge response
codes/serial number of any of my software, beyond having to keep a note of
the necessary numbers (common sense) and re-enter some of them.
The biggest move was from OS9-OSX, and the registration I was most worried
about was Sibelius. OK, I guess I was in the fortunate position of having
another computer handy; I transferred saving from the machine to be upgraded
to a copy of Sib on a 'spare' machine, did the OS upgrade, and transferred
the saving back again. Which is the recommended procedure; no problems.
Considering all the other headaches involved in a big OS move like this
(backing up gigs of data on external drives, reformatting disks, moving data
back, reinstalling new versions of old software, customisation, getting
hardware working again...) I'd say copy protection was the least of my
problems.
On the windoze machines at work, automatic network upgrades get installed
all the time (sometimes in the middle of a bloody lesson, grr), and none of
the copy protection has broken because of it.
--
J. Simon van der Walt- Composer
http://www.jsimonvanderwalt.com
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