From: "Robert Comer" 

Because they'll tie it to something else. (It's not gonna happen that they
take that ability away anyway, no incentive for the HW manufacturers.)

Anyway, there's only 2 ways to battle copy protection, one vote with your
dollars, which is not feasible for Microsoft OS's at this time, and the
other is sue the heck out of MS when you lose money because of your
computers not working. (If they get shut down by this WGA crap)

There is one more way, and that is to make this kind of thing illegal, but
there's even less chance of that happening than me traveling to Alpha
Centauri. (I have so much confidence in our government, don't I...)

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:45b29a3e{at}w3.nls.net...
> "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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