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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (72012)	1/25/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Eric, Re: This raises the more interesting question which is "re-hosting" i.e. you upgrade/swap to a new computer. How do you tell the vendor you have done such and should be given a new key for the new box? As a developer using these 'feature lock' technique, we are facing this situation once in a while. I believe in the future, the whole scheme would be easier as more PC would be connected and instead of permanently unlock, it can be done annually or twice a year interval which would make moving or upgrade hardware easier as all one need is to through the WEB(or whatever mean convenient) to get a new key and the one on the old machine would be expired. For machine which just stays there for years, it is just a re-issue of key. Gary

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (72012)	1/25/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: grok	Respond to of 186894

Eric, customizing the binary at download won't be cumbersome. After you've submitted your credit card number and they verified it then the website asks your PC to transmit the key. The website SW will munge it and pop it into one particular location in the binary. The munge part will be to make it harder for pirates to figure out. Then the custom binary to sent back to you. I'm not real sure about the part where the website asks your PC to transmit the key but it seems that that can't be too hard. All this comes together with the "death of shrink wrap" when all sw is transmitted over the web. If we can agree on this then we can have some really interesting discussions about what happens with AMD, older Pentiums w/o this feature, and (as you suggest) what happens when you upgrade your PC.