From: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:29:22 -0800 (PST)
To: Andrew Loewenstern <hal@rain.org>
Subject: Re: Executing Encrypted Code
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At 3:19 PM 12/20/1996, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
>Hal Finney writes:
>>  The answer presumably is that the software manufacturer will
>>  sell software with such limits for much less than he will sell
>>  unlimited software.  That's because software piracy is such
>>  a major problem, and this way he can be protected against
>>  piracy from this copy of his program.  So people with these
>>  CPU's can buy their software a lot cheaper.

> I believe this is a pipedream.  As it stands now, virtually all of the
> software that requires special hardware dongles is ridiculously expensive,
> even compared to similar offerings from other companies.

Why do you think this is?  I don't understand why I would buy a more
expensive package that required a dongle rather than a less expensive
package which does not.  This is mysterious.

Peter Hendrickson
ph@netcom.com