At 02:26 AM 10/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I agree with John's sentiments that if you legally buy a copy of some
>software package then you should be entitled to use that software on
>one computer at a time. Copyright protection for software should be
>the same as for a book. If you legally buy a book you may make a copy
>of it to read at your office and you may keep a copy of it at home. As
>long as only one copy may be read at any one time, then no copyright
>law is being violated and the book's author is not being robbed of his
>royalties.
Sounds like a case for the method used by Henter Joyce for their Jaws
screen reader system for windows.
You can install it on as many PCs as you like, and use it there for up to
40 mins before rebooting to reactivate it. the purchased software comes
with an authorization disk. Granted, you have to be careful with your
authorization disk, the software costs about $1000 and I suppose it's the
disk itself that might be said to be worth that as the disk is the only
part you cannot download for free, well, that and the brail manuals, tapes,
etc, but you can buy those for $45.
The authorization disk contains some sort of key that you copy onto the
installation and back onto the disk with a special program. you cannot
copy that key onto any other disk, only into your installed directory or
onto that one floppy disk. Standard imaging techniques do not reproduce
that disk. You copy the key onto your computer where you will use the
software. If you wish to take it to your office you copy the key back to
the disk, take the disk to work, and copy the key to that PC till it's time
to go home, copy the back to the floppy and take it home. Aside from the
inherent hazard of losing, damaging, or wearing out your authorization disk
it seems like a reasonable way of ensuring you can only use the software on
any single PC at a time, yet you can have it on as many PCs as you wish.
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