From: "Geo." 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:45b21614{at}w3.nls.net...

> A lot of copy protection schemes use it, so programs that use it would be
> useless on that PC.  MS isn't the first, or only one that uses it as a
> determiner that it's the same PC.  I don't like copy protection any more
> than you do, but randomizing the number just breaks things, rather than is
> some help to the consumer.  It'd be better to get the sw manufacturers to
> stop using copy protection!

What better way to get that to happen than to take away the capability to
read systems serial numbers?

Geo.

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