Re: hard disk code

["Johnathan Mercer" <mercerit at hotmail dot com>]

LOL, funny learning experience... we had a debacle when we tried to 
implement the NIC card security feature, thinking we sage guard people 
networking the software. In the end, its not worth it, in my opinion - too 
many customer service emails to respond to when honest people mess things up 
by changing something on their system.
- consumers will find a way to mess things up, and then get a warning 
message when they really didn't try anything illegal. in the end benefits < 
costs
-  beyond the standard measures we can take to fight piracy, we don't try 
anything fancy, because even pirating has its benefits, it can lead to more 
honest sales through WOM.
worry about things in your control: pricing and value. i heard of a 
microsoft rep, when he was asked about the threat of piracy in asia and how 
bad it was going on say "hey, in least their pirating ours"
Merc

From: Aaron Ballman &lt;aaron at realsoftware dot com&gt;
Reply-To: Getting Started &lt;gettingstarted at lists dot realsoftware dot 
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To: Getting Started &lt;gettingstarted at lists dot realsoftware dot com&gt;
Subject: Re: hard disk code
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:20:22 -0500

&gt;I don't know anything about Windows. Is there some way within Real
&gt;Basic to query the OS for a unique number of the disk or processor?

No, there's no framework call to get a unique number, and there's really no 
good way to get a number that will not change unless you require the users 
to have a hardware dongle.  You can change serial numbers or MAC addresses 
for hardware...
You can (at least on Windows) get the serial number with declares.  As for 
MAC addresses, you can get those from the NetworkInterface class -- but keep 
in mind that not everyone has a NIC card installed, and you can manually 
change the MAC address of a card, so it's not a good thing to guarantee 
uniqueness with.
HTH!

~Aaron
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