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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (47225)	1/25/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) of 1570639

Intel ID and Software Piracy A lot has already been said about the impact of the ID on privacy. (Be interesting to watch the media reaction to today's Intel boycott by privacy groups). But the software piracy issue may be just as controversial. "Intel said its technology....... can be used to avoid piracy by preventing a single copy of a software program from being installed on several machines." While I think piracy is a legitimate issue, (ie: the Chinese), I doubt if the average consumer thinks or cares much about protecting ISV's from piracy. In fact, I think the average consumer is a pirate, whether intentionally or not. But does he fall into the same category as some sleezy firm massively reproducing software for sale on the black market? And if the attempt is to prevent "a single copy of a software program from being installed on several machines", isn't the home consumer actually the target? A very large percentage of home users have two or more PC's. Many more have a PC both at work and at home. I suspect that in both instances a lot of users install a copy of at least some applications on all their machines. If a consumer has two PC's at home and installs an application on both, is he a pirate? (If I purchase a book, do I tell my wife she needs to buy her own copy if she wants to read it?) If you tell a consumer that in the future he will need to purchase a copy of software for each of his home machines what do you think his response will be? (Or that if he wants to bring work home he will need to purchase additional software to run on his home PC)? And since the piracy issue is based around PIII technology....... (And in anticipation, no, I'm not a pirate ;-)

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