re how to the disks copy protected in apr csus edu kschang sfsuvax sfsu edu kuo sheng kasey chang writes in article apr yuma acns colostate edu jmiller terra colostate edu jeff miller writes in an earlier article kasey chang wrote nothing but if you read my whole suggestion i m saying that you register via mail by mailing in your registration card then the company send you the patch which includes the info you put on the registration card the problem with this scheme is that when i buy a game i want to play it that day mailing a card to and from california would probably take a week or more i didn t say the program is disabled did i i hate it when people take my words out of context i mean that once you have installed it you cannot deinstall it without registering it or transfer it to another machine or some sort of limitation the author will decide which will be removed when the program is registered what you can t remove it unless you register you gotta be joking right what happens if i get a demo version of that program install it and then decide that i don t like it do i have to register to be able to get rid of it hell no that is the last thing i would think of if that is what you mean then you would better make pretty sure that a statement to that effect is printed loud and clear on the package a better way to implement the above mentioned scheme is imho to allow anyone to install the program but if they register they get some additional features enabled it could mean only one new exe file needed to be copied to have got the full version of the program of course anyone is free to delete or remove that program at whatever time they like still we face the trouble of moving the new exe file around that could be solved by having the user registering him self and get back a specially marked for him or her a new exe file as for some sort of limitations here are some suggestions limit the size of data that the program can work with disable saving the data print it out with some defects in the output but be sure to mark them as such let some pop up screen appear for ca secs when the program is started and or exited etc but don t have it that you must register to be able to remove it einari rhi hi is
