Cybermonk opened this issue on Sep 12, 2002 ยท 54 posts
WiNC posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 7:46 PM
Um Josh - if you break your CD then in most cases if you have a serial number or the original CD they replace it :) Yes SecureCD has caused issues though this isn't really the fault of the protection scheme - more that some CDRoms were designed outside specifications which prevented the reading of the sectors where the protection is located. Usually firmware upgrades of those CDRoms - or new CDRoms fixed those problems. Again that isn't the Protection Scheme's problem, it was because a few hardware companies skipped corners. And losing a serial number on a piece of paper isn't the companies fault also - so in essence those are good security messures, because (bar user stupidity) the user is protected in case the company falls over. HOWEVER - this Activation Scheme doesn't need to be stuffed up by the user for the end-user to be out of pocket. The company can stuff something up which will prevent the end-user being able to use their product. If they go Bankrupt and there is no means for the end-user to get activation for their software, the User is out of money because of the company and the Protection Scheme - not because of their own 'stupidity'... That is my specification of a failed protection scheme and a correct protection scheme. As for doing a new thread... I can all but try - but I think CL just ignores me hoping I will diappear and give up :) (ignore the silly woman - maybe she will give up and get bored and do something else :P)