Re: How to retrieve serial number of OS or CPU for copy protection?

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From: Matt Osborn (mosborn_at_spam_trap.TransomaMedical.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:42:26 -0500

"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> Are you working for RIAA? Same faulty comparison with stealing objects.
>>> A stolen object is gone. A copyed software is still there.
>>
>> But the revenue which comes from the pirated software is no less gone.
> Please read the whole answer, don't just quote a sentence out of context.
> I did explain why there was no money to go. Because the very low income
> person would have never bought the product.
> This is no argument for piracy, is more about learning to detect
> false claims of "trilions of USD lost to piracy."

Buy it or steal it; there is no alternative.

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