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Subject: Re: The future of computer chess...

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:28:00 08/05/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 08:30:23, Komputer Korner wrote:

>>I am not sure what you mean by "copyright protection".  If you mean copy
>>protection, I cannot see why this should be a problem.  A winboard/xboard
>>compatible program could be copy-protected in exactly the same way as any
>>other chess program.
>>
>>Tord
>
>It would be too easy to send it to all your friends.

No.  As mentioned, there is no reason a winboard compatible chess program
cannot be copy-protected in *exactly* the same way as any other chess program.
You can make the program ask for the original CD once every month, make the
program check for the presence of a dongle, allow only a finite number
of installs from a floppy disk, or use any other known copy protection
scheme.  That the program is compatible with xboard makes no difference at
all, and does not make it any easier to send the program to all your friends.
Why is this difficult to understand?

Tord



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