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Posted by: Barnacle_Blast
Posted by: General Heed
Then what do you propose to help curb this piracy? Unlimited activation just encourages sharing of keys so people can download illegal copies of software and use those unlimited keys to activate their products. Perhaps if PC games worked like Xbox 360 games where the discs need to be digitally signed by Microsoft first for them to work. But I'm sure that will be easy to bypass. So what do you propose?
Have product keys that can only be installed on let's say 1-5 machines total. But the product keys, if genuine, will never expire. They won't have limited activations.
I don't know if that would work. But It would be better than having limited activations, right?
Another way to prevent people from sharing their keys is that Microsoft could implement a mandatory specialized registration form, at each activation, that is stored on some database. The form could be used to check whether or not certain keys have been previously used. It would work like this: each time someone activates their product they would also be forced to fill out a registration form that has their Name, number, location, and email address. If they refuse to fill out the registration form they cannot activate their product.
I think some Microsoft products already use that system. I'm not sure if it's Windows or Microsoft Office.
Also, for your second suggestion, I think if someone really wanted to pirate something, they would share that registration info with everyone on torrent sites. And there's also the issues with cracks. Cracks can be used to bypass all these checks. I know someone who uses a cracked version of Windows 7 on their netbook and it shows up as Genuine Windows.
I think that the best way to curb piracy would be something like each activation and installation has to be digitally signed by Microsoft or whatever software company. And everytime, that signature changes with some kind of algorithim so that it keeps checking with the servers constantly to make sure it's a legal copy and not just a cracked version or keygen or shared key.