On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:11:58PM -0000, Geoff Winkless wrote: > One of the ways I was going to do protection (if I'd ever got round to it) > was buying a load of really crappy disks and writing code specific for each > disk that attempted to format a track I knew would fail - if it formatted > correctly it would know the disk had been copied... not usable on > high-volume items, but for the low-volume Sam market, it would have been > perfectly do-able :)
It doesn't seem a good idea because if they are that crappy then who's to say they won't start losing real data? (I suppose there might be a market for time-limited software...) Better to buy good disks and scratch them with a pin, or something. imc
