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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (85130)	1/5/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1584052

cirruslvr; Most SD shops load what the clients buy as software. Quite a few bootleg stuff. Hard to track down. I have seen fake windows and MS Office for sale in Chinese stores. They keep it out of direct sight. There are places in HK where for $3-5 US you can but pressed copies of anything at all. Some offer DVDs full of data for $30, pressed stuff, not written. I suspect this is the final use of the serial numbers in Intel CPUs in co-operation with the software writers. There is enough space on a CD to place millions of unique keys, all 128 or better and then you are forced into a dialog with the author who ask for your CPU ID# and then make a unique key for you that autochecks your CPU code before it runs. Hackable? maybe, maybe not. There is enough space on a CD to make them so long they are effectively unhackable. Interesting to see what happens with this in time.. Bill