[comp.protocols.appletalk] Copy Limiting and Protection under CAP?

trier@cwlim.INS.CWRU.Edu (Stephen C. Trier) (06/15/91)

Has anyone done any work on license control and copy protection under CAP?
What we are looking for is the ability to say "There are n licenses of this
program.  Don't let more than n people run it.  Also, don't let anyone copy
it."

Obviously, the second does not necessarily follow from the first.

I think we could implement license control without too much trouble -- just
maintain a count of the number of aufs processes that have opened a given
resource fork.  Until AppleShare 3.0, though, the copy protection will probably
require an INIT on the Mac end to help out.

Is anyone working in either of these areas?

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