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Re: Saturday, July 2, 2005
It would be interesting to see the figures, but I suspect that your case is the exception rather than Dave's. In the 80s software makers large and small tried copy proteciton, with "key disks" and other schemes, like the one Dave described in his podcast. And they dropped them. There are lessons there that need to be remembered. That doesn't mean that DRM is gone completely, by the way. In some cases it's scaled back. For example, if you open a Microsoft office application on a network (or a subnet, or a network context where other apps are in view), and the app detects another copy with the same serial number running on that network, it shuts itself down. Or so I've seen, anyway.
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