[access-uk] Re: FW: JAWS Activation Process
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:52:46 -0000
No, Carol.
You must understand the difference between re-installing,
and a completely NEW install.
You can install to three DIFFERENT machines.
You can re-install as many times as you like to those three
machines.
George.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson
Sent: 24 March 2005 12:22
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: FW: JAWS Activation Process
George,
Isn't Mervyn saying two things here: 1) Re-installs
shouldn't change the number of times someone installs; and
(quite the opposite): 2) re-installs are set at 3! If you
have to re-install JAWS, aren't you doing just that???
Well, if that's the case, I won't be very impressed.
Please, someone, tell me it's not!
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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:59 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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