[access-uk] Re: FW: JAWS Activation Process
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:16:07 -0000
does this mean, for example, that if my pc crashed and I had to
restore, losing an authorisation key from ilm, that when I went to activate
again, because
I hadn't changed motherboard or cpu that my install count would still be three,
even though I'd lost one code?
thanks.
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----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:59 AM
Subject: [access-uk] FW: JAWS Activation Process
OK guys,
Here's the situation as stated from Mervyn Robertson of Sight & Sound in the
U.K.
George.
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From: Mervyn Robertson
Sent: 24 March 2005 11:27
To: George Bell
Subject: RE: JAWS Activation Process
George
Part of the authorisation process generates a digital fingerprint of the
user's system (called a 'locking code'). This will not change unless a major
system component is changed (motherboard, CPU, etc.). This should mean that
reinstalls do not change the status of the number of times that the user has
installed.
It should be pointed out that the number of installs is nominally set at 3
(the old authorisation disk usually had an install count of 5). This is not a
finite limit but intended to be a level beyond which 'might' mean that copy
protection has been violated or the product has been stolen, shared with
someone else, etc. We spend a lot of time discussing different scenarios with
users who want to install on more than three machines and being flexible is
part of the game.
It should also be pointed out that replacement of the authorisation disk
(because it was faulty or damaged) physically took around 10-14 days. Now the
scheme is electronic, the user can request install count resets over the net or
can give Sight & Sound a call (or the company that sold them JAWS, who can in
turn get in touch with us) and we can get install counts reset. Much, much
quicker than it ever was!
If GW Micro don't want to protect their product then that's their business!
All of the other major manufacturers are, or are in the process of, putting
some form of protection in place. Microsoft, quite rightly, is making a huge
effort to make people aware that pirating will not be tolerated (I am getting
several flyers a day!) so I don't see why other companies should not follow
suit!
Mervyn
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