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cmk10-Dec-08 6:08
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This is part of the holy grail for copy protection - it doesn't exist.

MS gets the info from a bunch of hardware on your system and assigns points to each.
e.g.
- How much ram, what type ...
- Graphic card specs
- CPU specs
- Monitor specs
- NIC MAC

The items that are considered to be fairly consistant over the life of a machine receive more points than others e.g. MAC may have a higher point value than the amount of memory.

The license manager checks the current settings against the previous ones (not just the last) and looks at the difference in terms of 'points changed in x amount of time'. If too many points have changed it assumes you are running on a different machine.

[EDIT]
http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt[^]
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=5294[^]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5cb10f03-27f6-461d-a3db-d440b4ced7f6&DisplayLang=en[^]
[/EDIT]

...cmk

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
- John Carmack

modified on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:24 PM

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