02-15-2008, 07:55 PM
[quote wave rider]I think it is too hard to have a unique identifier on each disk since they burn them in big bunches. Thats why they went with the activation scheme.
=wr=
Well, you don't want to print the license number on the CDs anyway. But there's no reason you can't make sure that there are the same quantity of numbers in the database as there are units shipped, and that once a number is used, it can only be used again by the same registrant.
The practice of selling 'bulk' licenses is bound to defeat that plan, however. If you sell one 'bulk' license to a company with 3,000 employees, with people coming and going there are always going to be some unattached copies floating around, and they will inevitably enter the 'grey market'.
One would assume the big software companies know this, and wink at it.
/Mr Lynn
=wr=
Well, you don't want to print the license number on the CDs anyway. But there's no reason you can't make sure that there are the same quantity of numbers in the database as there are units shipped, and that once a number is used, it can only be used again by the same registrant.
The practice of selling 'bulk' licenses is bound to defeat that plan, however. If you sell one 'bulk' license to a company with 3,000 employees, with people coming and going there are always going to be some unattached copies floating around, and they will inevitably enter the 'grey market'.
One would assume the big software companies know this, and wink at it.
/Mr Lynn