>>Speaking of which, VMs are going to be used increasingly in the future. They present some difficult problems for software copy protection, as all of the hardware is virtual. Theoretically, there's nothing stopping someone from installing your software on a VM, then distributing that VM. Anyone who can run that VM can then run your software.
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>I see... That's an additional problem then, that I hadn't thought of. So, I assume that asking for the hard disk serial number - assuming I find a way to do this! - would give me some made-up code, in the case of the virtual machine.
Exactly.
Regards. Al
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