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Re: Executing Encrypted Code
At 3:19 PM 12/20/1996, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
>Hal Finney writes:
>> The answer presumably is that the software manufacturer will
>> sell software with such limits for much less than he will sell
>> unlimited software. That's because software piracy is such
>> a major problem, and this way he can be protected against
>> piracy from this copy of his program. So people with these
>> CPU's can buy their software a lot cheaper.
> I believe this is a pipedream. As it stands now, virtually all of the
> software that requires special hardware dongles is ridiculously expensive,
> even compared to similar offerings from other companies.
Why do you think this is? I don't understand why I would buy a more
expensive package that required a dongle rather than a less expensive
package which does not. This is mysterious.
Peter Hendrickson
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